Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 1, 1920, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Manitoba pt7ers May 1, 1920. Hotel m the charter of a King by sir William schooling . Author of the Hudson s Bay company 1670-1920 in the second of May 1670, King Charles ii. Declared the governor and company of adventurers of England trading into Hudson s Bay to be the True and absolute lords and proprietors of vast and unknown territories the Waters of which drained into Hudson Bay. In the seventeenth Century the Only known method for the undertaking of great enterprises was that of Royal Charters. They gave opportunities but could not ensure Success most of them were annulled because the companies failed to overcome the difficulties they encountered but the Hudson s Bay company endures because for a Quarter of a thousand years it made As it still makes those continual adjustments to Ever changing conditions which Are essential to vitality and Success. May second is the two Hundred and fiftieth birthday of the ancient institution which As it looks Back into the past and Forward to the future has for its highest ambition the Devotion of its resources influence and prestige to the Fuller advancement of the Dominion it did so much to found. R u-1 1 m i t Jurf
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