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Winnipeg Free Press

Wednesday, May 05, 1920

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Issue date: Wednesday, May 5, 1920
Pages available: 31
Previous edition: Tuesday, May 4, 1920
Next edition: Thursday, May 6, 1920

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 5, 1920, Winnipeg, Manitoba Fee celebs Flung its outposts of civilization by sir William schooling author of the Hudson s Bay 1670-1920." the Hudson s Bay company was founded in an age of Large thoughts and fresh ideas. The old world was seeking riches in the new. The Royal Observatory at Greenwich was established in 1675 to promote the navigation of unexplored seas. The Royal society was holding its earliest meetings and sir Isaac Newton was enlarging the boundaries of human knowledge. The first committee of the company passing from the City to the court saw the ruins of London after the great fire and could watch the building of St Paul s enduring Monument to the Genius of sir Christopher Wren. Among the greatest products of that fruitful age was the Hudson s Bay company for the purposes of the fur Trade it placed outposts of civilization throughout the wilds of Canada and thus in the fullness of time by methods easy to Trace but to foresee it fulfilled its destiny of discovering and creating a great country and of fostering the Merit of a splendid race ;