At 356, the HBC charter is about to get a Manitoba Museum welcome – Winnipeg

When Hudson’s Bay faltered last year, Manitoba Museum CEO Dorota Blumczynska didn’t even need to look at the institution’s bank accounts to know it couldn’t afford to buy the royal charter that formed Canada’s oldest business. “Our acquisition budget as a museum has a balance of just over $4,000,” she said Monday. “Regrettably, it was nowhere in…

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