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• -in 1659, coureur des bois pierre-eront rodisson and Medard chouort des groseilliers had the idea to send ships into hudson bay instead of down the st.lawrence river
• they brought their idea to new france but the leaders ignored their idea and fined them for trading without permisson
• so, in 1668, they presented their idea to the british and were sent to explore the hudson bay route
• -they came back with lots of furs so the british merchants created the hudson bay company
• -in 1670, britans king, charles 2, gave the hudson bay company all the land where the river flowed to the hudson bay they named it ruperts land
• -the british started trading posts by the hudson bay