BooksHow the Hudson’s Bay Company shaped Canada’s history—and its bordersA 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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CanadaHow ‘The Beaver’ lost its nameThe story of how the Canadian magazine solved its 90-year-old branding problem
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