- This page is for the fur district of the Hudson's Bay Company in the Pacific Northwest. For the United States capital district, see District of Columbia.
The
Columbia District was a
fur trading district in the
Pacific Northwest region of
British North America in the 19th century. Much of its territory overlapped with the disputed
Oregon Country. It was explored by the
North West Company between 1793 and 1811, and established as an operating fur district around 1810. The North West Company was absorbed into the
Hudson's Bay Company in 1821, under which the Columbia District became known as the
Columbia Department. The
Oregon Treaty of 1846 marked the effective end of the Hudson's Bay Company's Columbia Department.