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Simon Fraser fonds [textual record, graphic material]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1803-1940.

Reference:

R7744-0-6-E, MG19-A9

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

105668

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Simon Fraser fonds
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Record information – Details
Fonds includes:

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

1803-1940.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

7.8 cm of textual records (382 p.) chiefly photocopies.
1 photograph.

Language of material:

English

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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:

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Fraser, Simon, 1776-1862

Biography/Administrative history:

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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.

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Photograph: (Electronic) Refer to MINISIS for item-level description.

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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:

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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
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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1960-036 NPC

Former archival reference no.:

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MG19-A9
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Graphic (photo)

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Box [FRASER, SIMON 1960-036] 5327

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Photograph: No restrictions on use. Copyright expired. Credit: Photographer name / National Archives of Canada / Copy negative number.

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