Entry Date: 1909-03-22
Content: WTL Dear sir I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letters of 12th and 30th January also 11th February which I received a short time ago I am glad to see by your letters that their is a slight advance in fur price I shall endeavour to get all the lynx + foxes I will try my best to get as much but lynx are scarce up here and hard to get I went down to Duvegan with the packet and and just got back yesterday it was a hard trip of ten days as the snow is about 2 feet up on the River I made the round trip in 11 days. I got a fairly good haull of furs on my way up from one of our Indians and all on account of his help. I am not starting out north to see the Indians I have just heard that a number of them are suffering from starvation the wolves are so thick up north that they driving out the moose which makes it hard for the indians to make a living and trap as well I have not heard from Hudons Hope for some time but expect taylor down here soon. Yours faithfully F
Page Number: 63
PDF Page Number: 46
People Mentioned: Mr Harry Taylor
Mr Frank Beatton
Places Mentioned: Dunvegan,AB,Ca
Hudson's Hope,BC,Ca
Images from MS-0749 courtesy of Royal BC Museum, BC Archives.
Pdf Info:
Content: WTL Dear sir I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letters of 12th and 30th January also 11th February which I received a short time ago I am glad to see by your letters that their is a slight advance in fur price I shall endeavour to get all the lynx + foxes I will try my best to get as much but lynx are scarce up here and hard to get I went down to Duvegan with the packet and and just got back yesterday it was a hard trip of ten days as the snow is about 2 feet up on the River I made the round trip in 11 days. I got a fairly good haull of furs on my way up from one of our Indians and all on account of his help. I am not starting out north to see the Indians I have just heard that a number of them are suffering from starvation the wolves are so thick up north that they driving out the moose which makes it hard for the indians to make a living and trap as well I have not heard from Hudons Hope for some time but expect taylor down here soon. Yours faithfully F
Page Number: 63
PDF Page Number: 46
People Mentioned: Mr Harry Taylor
Mr Frank Beatton
Places Mentioned: Dunvegan,AB,Ca
Hudson's Hope,BC,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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