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Norimitsu Onishi went to Winnipeg to report on the Hudson’s Bay Company’s donation of its former flagship store.

Many of these early settlers were Kanakas — Native Hawaiians who previously had worked for Hudson’s Bay Company.

When Pitseolak’s husband, a fur trapper and hunter, died in an epidemic, leaving the family close to starvation, she and her children settled near Cape Dorset, founded as a trading post for the Hudson’s Bay Company.

The Hudson’s Bay Company established Fort Nisqually in 1833 for a year-round supply of beaver, otter and other pelts for trade.

The first recorded visit to the Radium Hot Springs was in 1841, when George Simpson, the governor of the Hudson’s Bay Company, bathed in a gravel pool just big enough for one person.