...their territorial rights or lose access to these valuable animals. Skirmishes continued for years. For example, Hudson Bay Company trader William McNeill of Fort Simpson recorded in 1855 that Tsimshian parties had been operating in Kake waters...

...probably be part of the British Empire today," he said. "I think the British would have gradually expanded the Hudson Bay Company and (Alaska) wouldn't have been part of the United States." However, Russia was able to maintain its grip on...

...the Tlingits and rival traders from Britain's Hudson Bay Company. The pole was commissioned by the U.S. Forest...Sitka Indians and a former base of operations for the Hudson Bay Company. It stirred protests from the moment it was unveiled...