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    Ambassadress of Peace by George Franklin Arbuckle for HBC, c. 1953. Image Courtesy of HBC Corporate Collection

    How the Hudson’s Bay Company shaped Canada’s history—and its borders

    A new book explores the significant Indigenous influence on HBC’s expansion and how, for all its many evils, the company kept vast swaths of Canada from becoming part of the U.S.

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    How ‘The Beaver’ lost its name

    The story of how the Canadian magazine solved its 90-year-old branding problem