Talk:North West Company

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An historic recreation of the North West Companys' entire route, from their farthest post west (Rocky Mountain House, Alberta) to their Headquarters (in Lachine, QC, now part of Montreal) was carried out in the summer of 1980 by Gerry Windle and Warren Clark, 2 residents of Alberta. The trip was canoed and portaged the entire way (approx. 4000 miles) by the 2 men, and both still reside in Alberta. Warren Clark currently resides in Edmonton, Alberta (email address is wclark@telusplanet.net), and Gerry Windle was last heard of in Calgary, Alberta. The 2 men canoed the entire trip in a 17' Mad River Canoe kevlar Explorer canoe, carrying all necessary items with them, and occasionally stopping for food and other necessities, as the voyageurs' did back in the late 1700's before them. Gerry and Warren still have all of the articles, pictures, and items that they picked up and kept from the canoe trip. To this day, this is still the only known recreation of the entire trip that was ever done. Warren Clark 23/11/2004

This page is an unhistorical mess. The grocery chain has nothing to do with the NWC historically. I'm going to work on cleaning this up and citing the appropriate sources. --Eileen R 22:34, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Foundation

I seriously think that the real date of foundation is 1682, when Pierre-Esprit Radisson and Médard des Groseilliers decided to quit the Hudson bay Company they had founded because they cannot get any profit and most of the money was sent to england and new-england, not to the trappers.

Also, since this company always been an "entrepreneurs and trappers union against the HBC monopoly", this union could really had started in 1682 just after war restarted between new-France and new-England.207.253.109.82 16:25, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rating

Needs referencing to make it to B class. Aboutmovies

WPCANADA agrees. Cheers, CP 05:57, 7 October 2007 (UTC)