Colonists arrive in Oregon

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In 1841, the Hudson Bay Company began to encourage settlement in Oregon, as James Sinclair (1811-1856), a trader and explorer with the Hudson Bay Company, lead a group of Red River Colony settlers west to Oregon Country.

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