Frank Beaton and the Fort St. John Fur Trade


Entry Date: 1905-09-23
Content: A few Indians around gave a small outfit to Little Head + a few others Montigins around after Deps but is refused Mr Selby + Ducan MacDonald arieved from cut bank River the former is head of a Survey Party working down their they was short of provisions Little Head + Party started back to their camps Samson taking up potatoes
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PDF Page Number: 45
People Mentioned: Mr Unknown Samson
Mr Little Head Unknown
Chief Unknown Montagnie
mr Unknown Selby
Mr Duncan McDonald
Places Mentioned: Cutbank River,AB,CA

Images from MS-0749 courtesy of Royal BC Museum, BC Archives.

Pdf Info:

The Hudsons Bay Company Fort St. Johns Daily Journal for 1904 and 1905 Athabasca District (Frank W. Beaton)

Daily journal of 1904 of the Hudson Bay Company for Fort St. Johns Athabasca District. Contains a calendar, postal rates, and the daily journal for 1904. Events for 1905 have been added in. Also contains a memorandum from 1903, followed by notes about 1905 Sunday 1st at New Years day and events in 1905 followed by 1904 and finally some notes related to January 1906 and a register for Banks in Canada. 

British Columbia Archives MS-0749 Box 1, File 3: Frank Beaton

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