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McTavish, Frobisher & Co. fonds [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1784-1810.

Reference:

R7705-0-0-E, MG19-A5

Type of material:

Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

105650

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McTavish, Frobisher & Co. fonds
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Fonds includes:

2 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1784-1810.

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

15 cm of textual records transcripts.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of textual records divided into two series as follows: McTavish, Frobisher & Co. account books; and letterbook and diaries of Joseph Frobisher.

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McTavish, Frobisher & Co

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McTavish, Frobisher & Co : Simon McTavish (1750-1804) emigrated from Scotland to New York, where he engaged in the fur trade at Albany until 1772, then Detroit until 1775, and Montreal thereafter. He was a partner in the North West Company of 1779 and a promoter ofthe renewed agreement of 1783. In 1787 he went into partnership with Joseph Frobisher; McTavish, Frobisher & Co. became the supply house and virtual directorate of the North West Company.

Joseph Frobisher (1740-1810), a Yorkshireman, first went west in 1768. Five years later he reached Saskatchewan. Between 1792-1796 Frobisher sat in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada. On the death of his brother, Benjamin Frobisher (d. 1787), he joined Simon McTavish, but retired in 1798. In 1806, the firm McTavish, Frobisher and Co. was reorganized, dropping the name of Frobisher, to become McTavish, McGillivray and Company.

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Location of originals note:

Originals in the possession of McGill University, Montreal, Que.

Dates of creation note:

Copied in 1915 from originals in the Redpath Library, McGill University, Montreal, Que.
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Fur traders Canada 18th century

Joseph Frobisher - Diaries, 1806-1810 Simon McTavish, 1787-1788

Dinners and dining, [1806-1810]

McTavish, Frobisher & Co. (Terrebonne, Nfld.) - Accounting, 1784-1786
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MG19-A5
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