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Incorporated by Royal Charter on May 2, 1670, it was originally called 'The Governor and Company of Adventurers of England tradeing into Hudsons Bay.' (The spelling and punctuation are as per the original document.) What is now called Hudson Bay, after the mariner Henry Hudson, was originally known as Hudson's Bay.
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the Hudson's bay & the north west company merge in 1787
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