About The North West Company Software Development company in Winnipeg, Canada
On June 15 2017 the Company acquired 100% of the outstanding common shares of North Star Air Ltd. (NSA). NSA is a Thunder Bay-based airline providing cargo and passenger services within northwestern Ontario Canada through its hubs in Pickle Lake Red Lake Sioux Lookout and Moosonee Ontario and Thompson Manitoba.
The acquisition was completed to gain efficiencies in our logistics network and enable the Company to provide faster more consistent delivery of merchandise to our stores in northern Canada that are generally inaccessible by all-weather road. NSA#39;s current fleet comprises 17 aircraft including five Basler BT-67 eight Pilatus PC-12 three ATR 72 and a Dash 8. These aircraft have been selected for their ability to deliver cargo fuel and passengers to the Canadian north on a cost-efficient basis.
Spread over vast geography NWC#39;s success was built on the essential skills of Aboriginal peoples and hinged on the effective interaction and expertise of merchant partners agents voyageurs and Aboriginal trappers. Merchant partners coordinated with Europeans to import goods for trade and to promote the sale of furs. Merchant and wintering partners were considered Company owners and were paid the interest that their shares accumulated Stationed at trading posts wintering partners were enterprising managers cultivating and managing their traders#39; relationships with First Nation communities and supervising the clerks voyageurs and others in their employ. The wintering partners and other hivernants the name given to voyageurs required to season at least one winter past the Height of Land (west of Fort William now Thunder Bay) often fought starvation and became accustomed to remote work in a harsh climate. They relied immensely on the support and goodwill of the Aboriginal people whose furs they traded.
Agents (bourgeois) were responsible for finances and for obtaining European trade goods wholesaling and supply.
Voyageurs (engages) were engaged to perform the hard physical labour of paddling and portaging as well as constructing and maintaining trading posts. It was common for voyageurs to wait as long as four years to receive their pay.
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