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The Hudson Bay Company or HBC was given the exclusive right to trade furs in the are granted to them. The name of the company signified the geographic access to the heart of North America's rich fur trading area.
Shipping was particularly important during the mercantile period. With the growth of colonies and the shipment of gold from the New World into Spain and Portugal, control of the oceans was considered vital to national power. Because ships could be used for merchant or military purposes, the governments of the era developed strong merchant marines.