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Simon Fraser fonds [textual record, graphic material]
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Record information Simon Fraser fonds [textual record, graphic material]
Date:1803-1940.Reference:R7744-0-6-E, MG19-A9Type of material:Textual material, PhotographsFound in:Archives / Collections and FondsItem ID number:105668Date(s):1803-1940.Place of creation:No place, unknown, or undeterminedExtent:7.8 cm of textual records (382 p.) chiefly photocopies.
1 photograph.Language of material:EnglishScope and content:Fonds consists of textual records divided into three series as follows: Correspondence to and from Simon Fraser, 1806-1807, 1840; three Journals of Simon Fraser, 1806, 1808; and Genealogical notes, 1803-1846.
Also included in fonds is a photograph depicting the Simon Fraser house located in Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Que., and built in 1804.Provenance:Biography/Administrative history:Fraser, Simon, 1776-1862 : Simon Fraser was born in New York and educated at Montreal. He joined the North West Company in 1792 and served in the Athabaska department until 1805, when he took charge of operations beyong the Rocky Mountains. He explored the Fraser River in 1808. From 1816 until his retirement in 1820 he had charge of the Red River department.Additional information:General note:Papers received at various times between 1951 and 1959.
Several journals and a letterbook were known to exist at Victoria in 1878, when they were transcribed for the Hubert Howe Bancroft Library at the University of California, but they have since been lost.
Photograph received from John MacMillan, Que.Citation/reference note:Volumes 2-4 were printed in the National Archives Report for 1929.Subject heading:- Fur traders Canada 19th century
- Trading posts Canada 19th century
- Explorers - Canada, 1803-1846 Donald Aeneas McDonell, 1840
- Simon Fraser - Diaries, 1806, 1808 James McDougall, 1806-1807
- Fraser family - Genealogy, 1803-1846 John Stuart, 1807
- North West Company - Employees, [1803-1846] Rocky Mountains, 1806-1807
- Fraser River (B.C.) - Discovery and exploration, 1806, 1808 North West Company, [1803-1807]
- Discoveries (in geography), 1806, 1808
- Fort Liard (Post) - History, 1803
- North West Company - Inventories, 1803
- North West Company - Posts, 1803
- Fur trade Canada 19th century
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