Frank Beaton and the Fort St. John Fur Trade


Entry Date: 1909-01-05
Content: Copy W.T.L Dear sir I enclose here in the monthly statement also Cash statement for the month of december which I hope you will find correct I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letters of Oct 6th and 12 also 4th + 5th of November which I recieved here on the 4th of January the fur trade as you will by the statement is very poor quite a number of Bear have been killed but as the opposition is paying a much higher price for Bears they have bought nearly all of them I have not heard from Hudsons Hope in some but I will start for their at once I would have gone up sooner but I could not get away from this Yours faithfully FWB
Page Number: 60
PDF Page Number: 43
People Mentioned: Mr Frank Beatton
Places Mentioned: Hudson's Hope, 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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