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    Alexander Ross (May 9, 1783 – October 23, 1856) was a Scots Canadian fur trader and author. Ross emigrated to Upper Canada, present day (Ontario), from...
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  • Shepherdess Alexander Ross (British Army officer) (1742–1827), Surveyor-General of the Ordnance Alexander Ross (fur trader) (1783–1856), Canadian fur trader Alexander...
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  • Alexander MacKay (c. 1770 – 15 June 1811) (also spelled McKay in some records) was a Canadian fur trader and explorer who worked for the North West Company...
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    Sir Alexander Mackenzie (c. 1764 – 12 March 1820) was a Scottish explorer and fur trader known for accomplishing the first crossing of North America by...
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  • fur trader/administrator Alexander Ross and Sarah (Timentwa), an Okanagan tribal woman. James married Margaret Smith in Toronto on 18 May 1858. Ross represented...
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    F. Raynolds - Early explorer in Yellowstone region Alexander Ross (fur trader) - Early fur trader in Yellowstone region Osborne Russell - Early trapper...
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  • Marie, Upper Canada (possibly 1797 or 1798). His father was the fur trader Alexander MacKay. His mother, from a marriage 'à la façon du pays' (in the...
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  • Simpson Ross (1827–1907), founder of the Order of Chartered Accountants of Quebec George Simpson (1787–1860), executive, fur trader Donald Alexander Smith...
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    Robert Semple (26 February 1777 – 19 June 1816) was an American-born fur trader and merchant who served as governor of the territories controlled by the...
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    trade stations along the Pacific Coast. Peter Pond, an active American fur trader, offered maps of his explorations in modern Alberta, Saskatchewan and...
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    James McMillan (August 1783–26 January 1858) was a fur trader and explorer for the North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company. He led some of the earliest...
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    Headquarters Log of the Pacific Fur Company on the Columbia River, 1811-1813, New York City: Fordham University Press Ross, Alexander (1849), Adventures of the...
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  • bitten, one was severely mangled and one died. 2 fur trappers working with Alexander Ross (fur trader) Adult ♂ 1855 (circa) n/a drainage of Columbia River...
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    Alexander Henry 'The Younger' (1765 – 22 May 1814), was an early Canadian fur trader, explorer and diarist. From 1799 until his premature death in 1814...
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  • (2010), Lives Lived West of the Divide: A Biographical Dictionary of Fur Traders Working West of the Rockies, 1793-1858, Okanagan: The Centre for Social...
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    McKenzie (16 June 1783 – 20 January 1851) was a Scottish-Canadian explorer, fur trader and Governor of the Red River Colony from 1821 to 1834. Born in Scotland...
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  • David Stuart (1765-1853) was a fur trader who worked primarily for the North West and Pacific Fur companies throughout his varied career. In the official...
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  • the vicinity of the hamlet of Sula, Montana. It was named after fur trader Alexander Ross, leader of a Hudson's Bay Company trapping brigade, who camped...
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  • ). Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press. pp. 54–56. Ross, Alexander (1924). The Fur Hunters of the Far West. Chicago: R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co...
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    1819), sometimes spelled Aleksandr or Alexandr and Baranof, was a Russian trader and merchant, who worked for some time in Siberia. He was recruited by the...
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  • gold medalist) 1976 Alexander Ross Fur trader, author, role in Pacific Fur Company and North West Company 1951 James Hamilton Ross Member of North-West...
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    Alaska, Hawaii, and California. Beginning in 1743, small associations of fur-traders began to sail from the shores of the Russian Pacific coast to the Aleutian...
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  • John Day (ca. 1770 – February 16, 1820) was an American hunter and fur trapper in the Pacific Northwest, including present-day Oregon, Washington, Idaho...
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  • among the Tla-o-qui-at. Thorn's behavior has been sharply criticized by fur traders who had to sail with him. In particular Gabriel Franchère stated that:...
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    Peter Skene Ogden (category Canadian fur traders)
    baptised 12 February 1790 – 27 September 1854) was a British-Canadian fur trader and an early explorer of what is now British Columbia and the Western...
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    Columbia. Begun in July 1818 under the direction of traders Donald MacKenzie and Alexander Ross, the fort was constructed by 95 NWC employees. The company...
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    extent of discovery along the Saskatchewan River. In the 1820s fur trader Alexander Ross found a lobstick marking the mouth of the Berens River. Many places...
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  • Jean-Étienne Waddens (category Canadian fur traders)
    the style of the country), Marguerite Waddens married Alexander MacKay, a prominent fur trader. When MacKay was killed on the Tonquin, Marguerite married...
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    Russel Farnham (category American fur traders)
    American frontiersman, explorer, and fur trader. An agent of John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company, he oversaw fur trading in the Great Lakes region throughout...
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  • 1801. This position was likely as a result of his uncles, Angus Shaw and Alexander McDougall, who were both partners in the NWC. In 1803 McDougall was in...
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