Company type | Joint-stock company |
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Industry | Fur trade, Indian trade |
Founded | 1798 |
Defunct | 1804 |
Fate | Merger |
Successor | North 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]