Chartered 1670 by King Charles II as "The governor and company of adventurers of England, trading into Hudson's Bay."; Known as Hudson's Bay Company.; In 1821 the Northwest company of Canada (formed 1773-74) was merged into the Hudson's Bay company

Richard Black Huestis was a merchant in Wallace, Nova Scotia, and a boat-builder; many of the ships built in Wallace were sent to either Newfoundland or Great Britain. Sometime around 1861 he moved to Amherst, Nova Scotia, where he took over his father-in-law's farm, and was also a prominent merchant.