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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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