Russian-american Fur Company


Chartered in 1799, with a monopoly of

the fur trade of Russian America. It absorbed the various smaller

independent companies, and for a time was a powerful rival of the

Hudson's Bay Company. Its operations were directed by Baranof, as

governor of Russian America, and the headquarters of the company were

established at New Archangel (modern Sitka), in 1800. =Index=: (Sir James Douglas era) Claim

north-west coast of America, 45; dissolved, 1861, 45. =Bib.=: Dall,

Alaska; Bancroft, History of Alaska; Laut, Vikings of the Pacific.



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