Oregon Country
Young and Kelley arrived at the British-controlled Fort Vancouver on October 17, 1834. It was a regional base for the Hudson's Bay Company. At the time, both the British and the Americans had settlers and commercial interests in the region; they did not settle the northern boundary with Canada until 1846. The HBC was so powerful that it discouraged or ran off new trading companies.
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