British Columbia sketches : Victoria, British Columbia, 1878.

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British Columbia sketches : Victoria, British Columbia, 1878.

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Biographical sketches of Herbert George Lewis, Michel Muir, and William John Macdonald. Lewis came to Victoria in 1848 and served the Hudson's Bay Company along the Northwest Coast afterward. Muir arrived at Victoria a year later with his father and was involved in coal enterprises. Macdonald came out from Scotland in 1851 and remained eight years in the Company's services. He relates experiences on San Juan Island the first year, and remarks on the controversy over the island.

Originals : 21 pages ; 32 cm.Copies : partial microfilm reel (14 exposures) : negative (Rich. 107:16) and positive.

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Hudson's Bay Company

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The Hudson's Bay Company began in 1670, and by the 1820s it had expanded to the Pacific Northwest. John McLoughlin served as the head of the Hudson's Bay Company's Columbia district. In this position, which McLoughlin held for twenty-one years, he oversaw the company's operations throughout the entire Pacific Northwest. Researching the role Dr. McLoughlin played in the history of the Hudson's Bay Company were Robert C. Clark and Burt B. Barker. Both were historians at the University of Oregon wh...

Macdonald, William John, 1949-

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Lewis, Herbert George.

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Muir, Michelle

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