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A person with money to invest
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Capitalist
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Territory given to the HBC
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Rupert's Land
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To sail around the world
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Circumnavigate
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Soldier who works for pay
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Mercenary
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A person with absolute authority
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Dictator
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Made sure that the fur trade was established in the HBC area
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King Charles II
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Person in charge of the company established by the king and the territories named after him.
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Prince Rupert
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Oldest company in North America originated as a fur trading company
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HBC
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Rivals the HBC's monopoly of the fur trading industry challenging the monopoly by going out to set up posts instead of relying of the natives to come to them
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NWC
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He goes west by boat. He is the 1st person to get to the west by travelling through the continent
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Alexander Mackenzie
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HBC map maker who leaves to work for NWC. Mapped all of western Canada
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David Thompson
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Famous English navigator who establishes an English presence in NA's west coast as a colony.
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James Cook
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One of Cook's officers who worked with the spanish to chart/map the coastline.
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George Vancouver
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Governor of Rupert's Land
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George Simpson
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There is a huge famine in Scotland, so he established a settlement next to the Rupert's land for the scots, but it failed because the weather was unsuitable for them to live.
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Lord Selkirk
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