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A Canadian fur trader in 1777. Cartouche from William Faden, "A map of the Inhabited Part of Canada from the French Surveys; with the Frontiers of New York and New England", 1777 John MacDonald of Garth A canoe of the rival Hudson's Bay Company in 1869, carrying the artist, Frances Anne Hopkins, and her husband, Edward Hopkins, secretary to the Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, in similar ...
McLellan was baptised in Glasgow on 12 May 1796. [1] His parents were Archibald McLellan (1746/7–1831), a coach-builder, and Christian Shillinglaw (f c.1774–1832).He was educated at the Grammar School [citation needed] and the University of Glasgow [2] before joining his father in the coachbuilding business where he showed skill as a heraldic draughtsman.
The Reorganization of the Fur Trade of the Hudson's Bay Company After the Merger with the North West Company, 1821 to 1826. Ottawa: National Library of Canada, 1988. ISBN 0-315-35812-2; Selkirk, Thomas Douglas. A Sketch of the British Fur Trade in North America With Observations Relative to the North West Company of Montreal. New-York: Printed ...
James McMillan (August 1783–26 January 1858) was a fur trader and explorer for the North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company. He led some of the earliest surveys of the lower Fraser River and founded Fort Langley for the HBC in 1827, and was its first Chief Trader. Fort Langley around 1862
Pages in category "Canadian fur traders" The following 189 pages are in this category, out of 189 total. ... Archibald McDonald; Duncan McDougall (fur trader) James ...
The fur trade did not involve barter in the way that most people presuppose but was a credit/debit relationship when a fur trader would arrive in a community in the summer or fall, hand out goods to the Indians who would pay him back in the spring with the furs from the animals they had killed over the winter; in the interim, further exchanges ...
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Major The Hon. Archibald Norman McLeod (17 March 1772 – after 1837) J.P., was a partner of the North West Company and a political figure in Lower Canada. In 1805, he built Fort Dunvegan . He was a member of the Beaver Club and represented Montreal West in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1810 to 1814.