Frank Beaton and the Fort St. John Fur Trade


Entry Date: 1903-07-09
Content: FW Beatton left this morning for Lesser Slave Lake with family. Very hot day. Samson at potatoes. Joe Bessette left for camp on Pine River. Joseph Apsaesin left for Azzeddies Lake. Dickinson left in the evening intending to camp with H. Arnold to night.
Page Number: 59
PDF Page Number: 51
People Mentioned: Mr Unknown Samson
Mr George Dickinson
Mr FrankW Beatton
Mr Joe Bisette
Mr Joe Appassisen
Mr Hugh Arnold
Places Mentioned: Lesser Slave Lake,AB,CA
Pine River,BC,CA
Azzeddy's Lake,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 1903 (Frank W. Beaton)

Daily journal of 1903 by Frank W. Beaton. Contains a calendar, sterling exchange, Canadian tariff of customs, the French Treaty, a list of banks in Canada with their agencies, fishery and game laws, postal information, mercantile law, sittings of the Courts, fire insurance, life insurance. This is followed by a memorandum from 1902, followed by January 1903 to December 1903. Last pages include cash accounts and cut out pages. 

British Columbia Archives MS-0749 Box 1, File 2: Frank Beaton

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