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Spanish Exploration and Trade in the Pacific

Spanish explorers, led by Juan José Pérez Hemández, initially explored the Pacific Northwest coast in the 1770s. The Nootka Crisis of 1789, resolved in favor of Britain, marked a significant moment in British-Spanish relations as maritime fur trade flourished. In 1821, the North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company merged, expanding their trading territory across North America.

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Spanish Exploration and Trade in the Pacific

Spanish explorers, led by Juan José Pérez Hemández, initially explored the Pacific Northwest coast in the 1770s. The Nootka Crisis of 1789, resolved in favor of Britain, marked a significant moment in British-Spanish relations as maritime fur trade flourished. In 1821, the North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company merged, expanding their trading territory across North America.

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Spanish explorers had taken the lead in the Pacific Northwest coast, with the

voyages of Juan José Pérez Hemández in 1774 and 1775.


[116] By the time the Spanish determined to build a fort on Vancouver Island, the
British navigator James Cook had visited Nootka
Sound and charted the coast as far as Alaska, while British and American maritime
fur traders had begun a busy era of commerce with the coastal peoples to satisfy
the brisk market for sea otter pets in China, thereby launching what became known
as the China Trade [117] In 1789 war threatened between Britain and Spain on their
respective rights, the Nootka Crisis was resolved peacefully largely in favor of
Britain, the much stronger naval power. In 1793 Alexander MacKenzie, a Canadian
working for the North West Company, crossed the continent and with his Aboriginal
guides and French-Canadian crew, reached the mouth of the Bella Coola River,
completing the first continental crossing north of Mexico, missing George
Vancouver's charting expedition to the region by only a few weeks. [118] In 1821,
the North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company merged, with a combined trading
territory that was extended by a licence to the North-Westem Territory and the
Columbia and New Caledonia fur districts, which reached the Arctic Ocean on the
north and the Pacific Ocean on the west.[119]

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