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East India Company Restaurant at the intersection of Robertson Road and Old Richmond Road. The former Hartin's Hotel, currently the East India Company Restaurant and Conference Hall, is a historic building in the Bells Corners neighbourhood of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
East India Company Restaurant at the intersection of Robertson Road and Old Richmond Road. The oldest buildings in Bells Corners are the former Hartin's Hotel, built after the fire in 1870 on the site of Robert Malcomson's Tavern, and the former Drummond Methodist Church, built in 1898 from stone taken from the old Union Church. [18]
The East India Company (EIC) [a] was an English, and later British, joint-stock company that was founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. [4] It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (South Asia and Southeast Asia), and later with East Asia.
The East India Company controlled most of the subcontinent of India. No other company in history has ever governed so many people. With the exception of China, the E.I.C. controlled a larger population by the nineteenth century than any government of any country in the world.
Armagaon or Armagon was the second colony of the English East India Company in Southern India. Its original name was Durgarazpatnam (Dugarazpatam) or Duraspatam. [1] It was chiefly inhabited by salt manufacturers. A small port 36 miles North of Pulicat it was the first place occupied by the British who erected a factory here in February 1626.
James Charles Stuart Strange was born on 8 August 1753 in London, England, United Kingdom.His parents were Robert Strange and Isabella Lumisden. [1] [2]His father, Robert Strange, was a former Jacobite from Orkney and had fought in the Jacobite rising of 1745, under Charles Edward Stuart, known as "Bonnie Prince Charlie" and the "Young Pretender".
Louis XIV's East India Company (French: Compagnie des Indes orientales) was a joint-stock company founded in the Kingdom of France in August 1664 to engage in trade in India and other Asian lands, complementing the French West India Company (French: Compagnie des Indes occidentales) created three months before.
He became a junior partner in his cousin's firm of Bosanquet & Willermin, silk merchants, for several years before being elected to the Direction of the East India Company in 1782. After serving three terms as a Director, he was elected Deputy Chairman of the company three times (1797, 1802 and 1810) and Chairman of the company , in each of the ...