North West Company

North West Company
	Company coat of arms
Company type	Private
Industry	North American fur trade
Founded	1779
Founder	Benjamin Frobisher, Joseph Frobisher, Simon McTavish, Robert Grant, Nicholas Montour, Patrick Small, William Holmes, George McBeath
Defunct	1821
Fate	Merger
Successor	Hudson's Bay Company
Headquarters	Montreal, Lower Canada
Area served	United States territory, New Spain, Russian America, British Canada

The North West 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 the regions that later became Western Canada and Northwestern Ontario. With great wealth at stake, tensions between the companies increased to the point where several minor armed skirmishes broke out, and the two companies were forced by the British government to merge.