Frank Beaton and the Fort St. John Fur Trade


Entry Date: 1918-03-03
Content: continues cold + stormy with snow wind from North Davis + Japanin arrived from Montigines camp they report a white man having been coming in with 2 horses to sell but found where horse had died and their they say the mans rifle + cap and they think the man is laying there somewhere dead I reported the matter to the polIce
Page Number: 160
PDF Page Number: 069
People Mentioned: Mr Unknown Davis
Mr Unknown Japanin
Mr Unknown Montigine
Places Mentioned:
Images from MS-0749 courtesy of Royal BC Museum, BC Archives.

Pdf Info:

The Hudsons Bay Company Fort St. Johns Journal of Events for 1916 to 1918 (Frank W. Beaton).

Journal of payments for June and July of 1912, September 1913, and March 1915, followed by a journal of events from October 1916 to August 1918.

British Columbia Archives MS-0749 Box 2, File 12: Frank Beaton

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