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    The Pacific Fur Company (PFC) was an American fur trade venture wholly owned and funded by John Jacob Astor that functioned from 1810 to 1813. It was...
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    American Fur Company (AFC) was founded in 1808, by John Jacob Astor, a German immigrant to the United States. During the 18th century, furs had become...
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  • "John Jacob Astor – Pacific Fur Company: Astorians – Tonquin – Fort Astoria". Mountain Man Plains Indian Canadian Fur Trade. TheFurTrapper.com. Archived...
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    Company was a fur trading business headquartered in Montreal from 1779 to 1821. It competed with increasing success against the Hudson's Bay Company in...
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    subsidiary of his American Fur Company (AFC), the Pacific Fur Company (PFC) operated in the Pacific Northwest in the North American fur trade. Two movements...
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    indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast and natives of Alaska. Entrepreneurs also exploited fur-bearing skins from the wider Pacific (from, for example...
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  • some records) was a Canadian fur trader and explorer who worked for the North West Company and the Pacific Fur Company. He co-founded Fort Astoria near...
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    them serve the company (although later, most of them worked for North West Company when this company absorbed the Pacific Fur Company in 1813). After...
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    Columbia District (category Fur trade)
    became the key overland connection to the emerging fur district. The American Pacific Fur Company (PFC) founded Fort Astoria near the entrance of the...
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    Pacific Fur Company was liquidated, British-Canadian companies controlled the fur trade in the Pacific Northwest, first under the North West Company (NWC)...
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