Frank Beaton and the Fort St. John Fur Trade


Entry Date: 1903-11-30
Content: still continues Mild. Snow nearly gone self went out to hunt up the old horse and found him up the Creek Samson of looking for birtch for sled runners
Page Number: 100
PDF Page Number: 74
People Mentioned: Mr Unknown Samson
Places Mentioned:
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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