Frank Beaton and the Fort St. John Fur Trade


Entry Date: 1903-11-26
Content: A fine warm day Rain last night the Hills bare. Keith working in the office self fixing the windows of the house Samson at fire wood Thomas + 2 Boys Arieved from the North Pine reports that one of the Ner Ka wunns has killed a Silver fox
Page Number: 99
PDF Page Number: 73
People Mentioned: Mr JB Keith
Mr Unknown Samson
Mr Unknown Thomas
Mr John Nackawens
Places Mentioned: North Pine River,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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