The Hudson's Bay Company post called Fort Garry later became which city?

The fur trade was the prize that Canada's earliest companies fought over. Some began while the French ruled, others under the British. One of them, the Hudson's Bay Company, hired French, British and Aboriginal staff, and it grew strong enough to control business right across the northwest. Its chain of posts ran from Fort Garry, today's Winnipeg, and Fort Edmonton, west to Fort Langley beside Vancouver and on to Fort Victoria. Each of those posts later turned into a city.

Financial institutions came late in the 1700s and early in the 1800s — the first ones in the country. The Montreal Stock Exchange followed, opening in 1832. For hundreds of years the economy rested on two things. One was farming. The other was selling natural resources to buyers overseas: fur, fish and timber were the main ones. Goods travelled by road, and by lake, river and canal.