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applegrove

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7. Everyone was awful back then. But the small pox blankets

Sat Mar 8, 2025, 01:38 AM

Mar 8

are particularly genocidal. Don't know if there is actual documentation of that (at one point I read something having to do with documentation existing and the British but I can't remember exactly right now and can't remember if blankets were involved) or if something like..... smallpox was just trending in killing off indigenous people and Hudson's Bay workers decided to give blankets instead of beads because old world diseases would transmit better that way, since they were coming from Europe and we're worn all over a person's body and traded again and again amongst the various peoples. Sick. But I don't know how. I've forgotten what I once knew.

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The Bay, Hudson's Bay Company, founded in 1670, [View all] applegrove Mar 7 OP

Wow. /nt bucolic_frolic Mar 7 #1

They have huge stone flagship stores in the downtown of most Canadian cities. applegrove Mar 7 #2

Meanwhile, I read Simon's is doing well. bucolic_frolic Mar 8 #8

The hedge funds like small and mid sized companies applegrove Mar 8 #9

The Indigenous And The Hudson's Bay Company cbabe Mar 7 #3

Maybe they can do something with that downtown real estate and applegrove Mar 7 #4

That would be a good thing. I seem to remember that being part of negotiations. cbabe Mar 7 #5

The Company with a very spotted but interesting history. rickyhall Mar 8 #6

Everyone was awful back then. But the small pox blankets applegrove Mar 8 #7

The historical records is: maybe. cbabe Mar 8 #10

Thanks. That must be the account i read, the British in Pittsburg. applegrove Mar 8 #11

1862 Pacific Northwest smallpox epidemic cbabe Mar 8 #12

Thanks. I hope they are teaching this in school. applegrove Mar 8 #13