Browse Fur Trade Fonds

Reference code

CA RBD MSG 432

Source of title

Title based on creator of the collection.

Level of description

Collection

Repository

Rare Books and Special Collections

Physical description

3 cm of textual records.

Content summary

The collection contains business correspondence, including letters to William Grant and Grant, Campion & Co. from Brickwood, Pattle, & Co., 1792-1793, and letters from Brickwood & Daniell, John Blackwood, and McTavish, Fraser and Co., 1799-1800. There is also a bound letter book for Grant and Laframboise, Montreal, 1800-1801 with additional loose leaves of letter copies dating between 1798 and 1800.

Language

English

Subject access points

Fur trade.

Place access points

Fort Michilimackinac (Mackinaw City, Mich.)

Name access points

Grant, Campion and Company. | Brickwood, Pattle, & Co. | McTavish, Fraser and Company | Grant, William, 1743-1810

Genre

Letter books.

Notes

William Grant (1743-1810) was a fur trader, merchant, and office holder.  He was born in Kirkmichael, Scotland, son of John Grant and Genevieve Forbes and married on 27 Feb. 1787 to Marguerite Fafard, dit Laframboise, in Trois-Rivières, Que.  They had five children.  He died on 20 Nov. 1810 near William Henry (Sorel), Lower Canada.

Date

1792-1801