Interesting Calgary.

We really enjoyed out time with family, the wedding and the city as well. There is art sculptures on the streets.

And a very 'British' chair in the Bay.

The Hudson Bay Company was incorporated in 1670 as a fur trading company in Canada. This Bay building must have been the talk of the town when the 6 storey structure went up in the midst of 2 storey buildings, now dwarfed by its new neighbours. I loved the arches, black and white checkered marble floors and play of the light through the marble pillars.

	The company was incorporated by English royal charter in 1670 as The Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay and functioned as the de facto government in parts of North America before European states and later the United States laid claim to those territories. It was at one time the largest landowner in the world, with Rupert's Land having 15% of North American acreage. From its long-time headquarters at York Factory on Hudson Bay, the company controlled the fur trade throughout much of British-controlled North America for several centuries. Undertaking early exploration, its traders and trappers forged early relationships with many groups of First Nations/Native Americans. Its network of trading posts formed the nucleus for later official authority in many areas of Western Canada and the United States. In the late 19th century, its vast territory became the largest component in the newly formed Dominion of Canada, in which the company was the largest private landowner. With the decline of the fur trade, the company evolved into a mercantile business selling vital goods to settlers in the Canadian West.