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Russian American Company [textual records (microform)]

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Series

Date:

1821-1903

Reference:

MG20-F29

Type of material:

Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

103720

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Hudson's Bay Company Archives

Section F - Records of Allied and Subsidiary Companies

Russian American Company
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Series includes:

2 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1821-1903

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

2 reel(s)

Language of material:

English

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Book containing the ukase of Tsar Alexander I and regulations affecting the company's organization, 1821, 1 reel; miscellaneous papers concerning the business of the Russian American Company, and its relations with the Russian Government and the Hudson's Bay Company, 1824-1903, 1 reel.

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Hudson's Bay Company

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Hudson's Bay Company : The Russian American Company was organized in 1784 when Gregori Ivanovich Shelekhov and several associates established a post on Kodiak Island. In 1799, Shelekhov secured a charter from Paul I granting the Russian American Company a monopoly over all lands on the coast of America north of the 55th parallel and south of that line over territory unoccupied by a foreign power.

A second charter granted in 1819 confirmed the close relationship which had existed between the company and the Imperial Government by requiring the company's chief officer to be captain of the Imperial Navy. Under the company's auspices, settlements were established at Sitka in 1799, Fort Ross, California in 1812 and later in Honolulu. The 1821 ukase of Tsar Alexander I declared all islands and waters north of 51 degrees north latitude to be Russian territory and the charter of the company was renewed.

The Anglo-Russian convention of 1825 established the boundaries between the two countries in North America and regularized trading regulations between British and Russian companies on the North West Coast. This convention granted to the Hudson's Bay Company trading privileges along the coast south of Mount St. Elias. In 1839, the Russian American Company let a strip of coast south of Cape Spencer to the Hudson's Bay Company, granting also the right to supply provisions. This lease was renewed periodically until 1867, when Alaska was purchased from Russia by the United States, terminating the Russian American Company's presence in North America.

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Textual records (Paper) MSS0065 (90: Open)

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Location of originals note:

Originals with the Hudson's Bay Company Archives, Winnipeg, Man.
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Hudson's Bay Company - Allied and subsidiary companies, 1821-1903 Russian American Company, 1821-1903

Russian American Company - Business records, 1824-1903

Russian American Company - Organization, 1821

Hudson's Bay Company - Relations with Russian American Company, 1824-1903

Russian American Company - Relations with Russian government, 1824-1903

Fur trade North America 19th century
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Private

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MG20-F29
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Textual records

[Consultation18 Restricted]

Finding aid box [FA 65] 7--11

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Textual records: microform

[Consultation90 Open]

Microfilm reel HBC 5M49--HBC 5M50

[Consultation 90 Open]

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