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Show this inland empire will be dotted with the farms of settlers, and grain fields will mark tho last remnants of the I Hudson 's Bay company 's ancient heritage. BIG COMPANY SURVIVES. The rapid advance of civilization in Canada has wrought a change in the policy of the Hudson's Bay company, which, with two and a half centuries of history .behind it, just now is closing clos-ing out to farm settlers the land which represents the last vestige of its former for-mer empire. The increasing settlement of lands once the haunts of fur-bearing animals has crimped the fur-trading activities of this famous corporation, and it is turning its attention to other channels of trade. A chain of department depart-ment stores extending across western Canada is being established. The torn-nanv torn-nanv now operates stores in Winni- peg, Cslgary, Edmonton, lyCthbri'lgc, Matleod, Kamlnnps, Nelson, A'ernon, Victoria, Q'AppolIo and Yorktown. Those in Calgary and Vancouver are comparable to the great department stores in the United States. The company com-pany now is planning to build in Win nipeg the largest department store in the Dominioo. The company is still one of the world's gneatest fur traders. It lias 142 fur posts and still sends to England En-gland annually millions of dollars' worth of raw furs. But with the great growth of its business as a general merchant it no longer has need of large tracts of lands adjacent to centers of population. Under its charter, granted grant-ed by King Charles II in 1070, to the "gentVoman adventurers," th'; llud son's Hay company became virtually sole owner and ruler nf three fourths of North America. Its territories ex tended from the Great Lakes to the Pacific ocean, far south MfOJH I lie present American boundary to Ihe Hpinish settlements in California. When ii surrendered its authority over this vgal region in Canada It rc-Mited rc-Mited n indemnity of liOO,Ono snd retained one twentieth of all II for-ile for-ile belt between Cake Winnipeg, Cake of the Woods and the waters connect ing them and the Kooky mountains and i.el'en the North Hnskatchewan river and the international tioundiirv. This land amounted to 3,200,000 acres at th end of October and has been untouched by 'he plow in the midst of the richest .eetlons of western Canada. Farmers of districts lha' I 'm it iu hn'' long , nt eo-.etoiis ovs upon it. tn t few yuan It In cspectcd that |