Original Hudson S Bay Point Blanket

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Original hudson s bay point blanket.

The blankets continue to be sold by canada s hudson s bay stores and have come to hold iconic status in canada. Shop hbc point blankets on thebay. Beaver pelts were exchanged for blankets through the hudson s bay company and its outposts throughout northern canada. Arctic fox lynx and most importantly beaver.

Very few blankets hold the iconic statusthat hudson s bay point blankets do. In the late 1700s wool blankets were so important to comfort and survival that they were used as a form of currency in trading between trappers and native americans. Typically the wool blankets were traded with native americans for pelts. Today pcsoutdoors offers hudson s bay point blankets under the official license of the historic hudson s bay company.

These stripped blankets were created by the hudson s bay company in the northern part of north america in 1780. We are committed to the preservation education and promotion of hudson s bay company s history and the ongoing care and maintenance of the company s historical hbc corporate art artifact image and reference collections. The earliest mention of hudson s bay point blankets is contained in the minutes of a meeting of the hudson s bay company s london committee on 16th december 1779 but there is little doubt that they were an article of trade before this date. Hbc heritage is an internal department of hudson s bay company.

The off white wool patterned with slender stripes of. Shop our amazing collection of hbc point blankets online and get free shipping on 99 orders in canada. The company is named for the hudson bay and the blankets were typically traded to first nations in exchange for beaver pelts. The hudson s bay company blanket may appear to be a fairly plain household item but it s perhaps the most remarkable blanket in the world.

A hudson s bay point blanket is a type of wool blanket traded by the hudson s bay company hbc in british north america now canada and the united states during the 1700s and 1800s.