The Bay has a Secret, Ancient Archive and it’s Being Sold off to Millionaires
The Hudson’s Bay Company is dead.
While the Canadian media obsesses over the sale of The Bay’s retail properties, thousands of historical artefacts and artworks — including the original copy of the Royal Charter — sit concealed in the cockles of the company’s dustiest vault. Now, Canada’s oldest retailer is hemming and hawing over donating these culturally-significant artefacts to Indigenous communities requesting them, or selling the artefacts for cold, hard cash… all-the-while refusing to share what’s in their inventory.
Taylor C. Noakes chats with Jesse about why the Bay’s obfuscation of…
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