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There was another trader Fraser, Fred R. Fraser, who I believe to be the son of Colin Jr. In 1893, he moved to Fort Chipewyan and owned stores at McKay, Fitzgerald, Resolution, Rae and Fond du Lac. He later went into the lumber business with his brother in Edmonton.

There was a Hodgson, from a family usually boat builders, who became a trader. He was John Hodgson who married Margaret Atkinson in 1898. He traded for their first few years and then settled into farming.
Even Malcolm Norris, born in 1900, and a great Metis politician, worked as a trader. He worked for the HBC post at Fort Vermillion in 1919 and became assistant post master. He became unhappy with the way the First Nations were treated, and started his own post on Slave Lake. They stayed in the area, were he was a successful trapper and trader.

In the south, between Battle River and Buffalo Lake, there was a branch of the family Whitford. Donald and Francis acted as traders for the HBC, sometimes at Boss Hill and sometimes at Hobbema.

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Rivalry and Union(1821)/Seven Oaks

Free Trade at Red River

Battle of Grand Coteau

Provisional Government (1869-1870)

Manitoba Act and Scrip

Indian Treaties

Post 1886: Rupture and Drift

Political Agitation (1870s and 1880s)

North-West Rebellion (1885 and after)

 

 

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