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Hudson's Bay Company

Canadian retail business group, former fur trading business
Organization business Q76039
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Summary

Hudson's Bay Company is a business[1]. It ranks in the top 0.047% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (12,745 views/month, #14 of 29,529).[2]

Key Facts

  • Field of work: merchandising[3], fur trade[4], retail[5]
  • Country: Canada[6]
  • Instance of: enterprise[7]
  • Founder: Pierre-Esprit Radisson[8], Médard des Groseilliers[9]
  • Named after: Hudson Bay[10]
  • Headquarters location: Brampton[11], Toronto[12]
  • Child organization or unit: Hudson's Bay[13], Puget Sound Agricultural Company[14], Simpsons[15]
  • Commons category: Hudson's Bay Company[16]
  • Industry: retail[17], retail sale in non-specialised stores[18], trade[19]
  • Archives at: Trent University Archives[20], Kathryn A. Martin Library[21], Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library[22], Archives of Manitoba[23], BC Archives[24], Glenbow Archives[25], Yukon Archives[26]
  • Inception: May 2, 1670[27]
  • Dissolved, abolished or demolished date: 2025[28]
  • Coordinate location: 43.65158111111111, -79.38108805555555[29]
  • Official website: https://www.hbc.com[30]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Hudson's Bay Company[31]
  • Described at URL: https://discoverarchives.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/hudsons-bay-company-papers[32]
  • Employees: 70,000[33]
  • Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Hudson's Bay Company[34]
  • Depicted by: David Armit Fonds[35], James Bissett[36], John McDonald of Garth[37]
  • Described by source: The Nuttall Encyclopædia[38], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[39], Encyclopædia Britannica Ninth Edition[40], The New Student's Reference Work[41], Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[42]
  • Legal form: joint-stock company[43]
  • Owner of: Hudson's Bay[44], Zellers[45], Saks Fifth Avenue[46], Cadboro[47], Columbia[48], Fort Chesterfield[49], Princess Louise[50], SS Colvile[51], SS Grahame[52], SS Princess Louise[53], Lord & Taylor[54], Home Outfitters[55]

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 549300K418TJAD5IEL43[56]

  • Registered legal name: Hudson'S Bay Company Ulc Compagnie De La Baie D'Hudson Sri[57]

  • Legal jurisdiction: CA-BC[58]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[59]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): YG5M[60]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[61]

  • LEI registration status: LAPSED[62]

  • Entity created: 2016-12-31[63]

  • LEI first registered: 2017-01-14[64]

  • LEI last updated: 2026-09-06[65]

  • LEI next renewal: 2026-09-06[66]

  • Managing LOU: 529900F6BNUR3RJ2WH29[67]

  • Registration authority: RA000074[68]

  • Authority entity ID: C1242939[69]

  • Other names: Hudson'S Bay Company LTD. Compagnie De La Baie D'Hudson Ltee, Hudson's Bay Company[70]

  • Conformity flag: NON_CONFORMING[71]

Why It Matters

Hudson's Bay Company has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[72] It is known by 56 alternative names across languages and contexts.[73]

Related Entities

Brampton business Canada Toronto Yukon Archives

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [56] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [57] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
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  15. [70] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  16. [71] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [72] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [73] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 22d ago · Wowo2024 · 2026-09-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Coordinate location → {'latitude': 43.65158111111111, 'longitude': -79.38108805555
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  2. 6w ago · Wiki6518 · 2026-09-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Field of work → merchandising, fur trade, retail
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Field of work: merchandising, Added from LC Name Authority File n80089976"
  3. 8w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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  4. 12w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → Atlanta Thrashers
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  5. 13w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → hudson-bay-company, hudsons-bay-company
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