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Excerpt from The Canadian North-West: Its History and Troubles, From the Early Days of the Fur-Trade the Era of the Railway and the Settler; With Incidents of Travel in the Region, and the Narrative of Three Insurrections
E should be glad if we could say that the world had outgrown monopolies. One monopoly on this Continent it has however outgrown. A great Fur-trading Corpora tion that had seen ten British Sovereigns come and go while it held sway over the territories once ceded to His Serene High ness, Rupert, Prince Palatine of the Rhine, yielded up its proprietary interests to the.
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