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Pugets Sound Agricultural Company
The Puget Sound Agricultural Company (PSAC), commonly referred to with variations of the name using Puget Sound or Puget's Sound, was a joint stock company formed around 1840 as a subsidiary of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) to operate in the Columbia Department. The purpose of the company was ostensibly to promote settlement by British subjects in the Oregon Country. The primary company operations were centered at Fort Nisqually and Fort Cowlitz in modern Washington state. At Fort Nisqually (near present-day Olympia, Washington) due to poor soil, the station focused on pastoral operations, including flocks of sheep for wool, cattle herds for beef and cheese manufacturing. Fort Cowlitz was the company's primary center of agricultural production. The company also operated many large farms in the area of Fort Victoria on Vancouver Island.
==Background==
In 1838, George Simpson of the HBC requested from Parliament in London additional powers to raise food for sale to visiting ships, notably to provide a supply contract with the Russian-American Company (RAC), and to promote the settlement of the Oregon Country.〔 With the negotiation of the RAC-HBC Agreement in 1839, the Hudson's Bay Company was given the contract Simpson had hoped for, namely to supply the trading stations of Russian America. However, the terms of the HBC's license only allowed for trade with native peoples, and did not include the right to engage in commercial farming. To bypass this apparent issue, the HBC created a subsidiary company to be kept at arms length to meet the agreement and support British colonization in the Pacific Northwest.〔 In this way, the PSAC would protect HBC board members and shareholders from accusations and suits resulting from violations of the HBC charter.
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