XY Company

XY Company
Company typeJoint-stock company
IndustryFur trade, Indian trade
Founded1798
Defunct1804 (1804)
FateMerger
SuccessorNorth West Company
Headquarters
Area served
Assiniboine Country, Athabasca Country

The XY Company, also known as the New North West Company, was a joint-stock fur trading enterprise based in Montreal that conducted business chiefly in the Canadian Northwest between 1798 and 1804.[1] It was established in opposition to the North West Company, whose employees called it the Little Company and the Potties.[2]

  1. ^ "XY Company." Archives of Manitoba. Retrieved 2022-12-01.
  2. ^ Yerbury 1986, p. 68.