Révillon Frères

Revillon Frères post, Repulse Bay, Nunavut, June, 1926 (Photographer: L.T. Burwash).

Revillon Frères (Brothers Revillon) was a French fur and luxury goods company with stores in Paris, London, New York and Montreal at the end of the 19th Century. In 1903, the company decided to set up a network of fur-trading posts in northern Canada to compete with the Hudson's Bay Company.

In 1909, Revillon Frères had forty-eight stores in its Eastern Arctic division while the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) had fifty-two. Competition in Canada between these companies ended in 1936 when the HBC bought out Revillon Frères. The company continued to operate in the luxury fur business in France, and in 1982 merged with the publishing group, Les Éditions Mondiales.

Many of the Inuit villages in Nunavik, in northern Quebec, Canada, are located on sites originally occupied by Revillon Frères trading posts.

Revillon Frères financed the 1922 film Nanook of the North, filmed near one of their trading posts at Inukjuak, Quebec on northeastern Hudson Bay.

There is a Revillon Frères Museum in Moosonee, Ontario which has been closed for several years.

Revillon Frères Museum, Moosonee, Ontario, 2005 January 9, now boarded up

Some websites incorrectly state that Revillon Frères is now known as cosmetic giant Revlon. Revlon is an American company that was founded in 1932, by Charles Revson and his brother Joseph, along with a chemist, Charles Lachman.