Frank Beaton and the Fort St. John Fur Trade


Entry Date: 1906-07-03
Content: Copy. W.T.L Dear Sir Inclosed here in the Monthly statements also cash account for month ending 31st June which I hope you will find correct you will see by monthly statements that I have given rather to much advances to Indians but as they had nothing to buy supplies with I took security on their horses. They are gone North between the Nelson and Hay river where they will pass the summer as moose are plentiful out their they intend to put up dry meat for next winter use where most of them will be wintering I also enclose R C Jardines account
Page Number: 53
PDF Page Number: 35
People Mentioned: Places Mentioned: Nelson River, B.C., Ca
Hay River, B.C., Ca

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

Pdf Info:

The Hudsons Bay Company Fort St. Johns Daily Journal for 1906 to 1910 (Frank W. Beaton)

Carbon copies of letters from Fort St. John by F. W. Beatton for H.B. Comp. St John B.C. August 14, 1906 and February 2, 1907 followed by other dates up to May 12, 1910.

British Columbia Archives MS-0749 Box 5, File: Vol. 28: Frank Beaton

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