THE BEAVER
A SYMBOL OF ENTERPRISE High above Beaver House, 160 feet above the street level of the Hudson Bay Company’s new headquarters in Bishopsgate, the figure of a beaver, wrought in glittering copper, has been established as a weathercock. Made of sheets of beaten metal, it weighs the best part of a hundredweight, yet it is so delicately balanced on is lofty pivot that it swings round to the slightest puff of wind. The beaver has been the symbol and badge of the Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson Bay from the day when Prince Rupert and 17 others received their trading charter from Charles the Second in 1670. It is well over half a century now since the company surrendered to Canada its sovereignty over all the land watered by streams flowing into Hudson Bay, but it has not only continued in its original business of fur-trading, but has developed a vast general trade throughout the Canadian West. Endless stories have been told of the prowess of its servants as trappers and traders in that great land of forest and prairie, river, lake, and snow. Long may the great copper beaver wave its tail over London, a memorial and a promise of the dauntless enterprise of men of British blood.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 107, 27 July 1927, Page 11
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216THE BEAVER Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 107, 27 July 1927, Page 11
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