Papers 1890s, 1900-1945.

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Papers 1890s, 1900-1945.

The Romanet papers consist of correspondence; notebooks and reports on the fur trade; original manuscripts of Kabluk of the Eskimo with their several revisions; photographs of Hudson's Bay Company employees, trading posts and stern wheel steamships, native population of Northern Canada and the Romanet Family. 1890s, 1900-1945. Included are papers relating to Romanet's career with Revillon Frères Trading Company, 1903-1916; Hudson's Bay Company, 1916-1930; North Star Oil Company, 1933-1938; Abasand Oils Ltd., 1937-1941 and Northwest Service Command, 1944.

96 cm. + 860 photographs.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8030271

University of Alberta

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Romanet, Louis Auguste, 1880-1964

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L.A. Romanet (1880-1964) came to Canada from France in 1903. He joined the French fur trading company, Revillon Frères, and worked at the Ungava trading post in Quebec. In 1916 Romanet joint the Hudson's Bay Company as an inspector. By 1923, he had become district manager of the Athabasca and Mackenzie River Districts and general manager of the Alberta and Arctic Transportation Company. After he left the Hudson's Bay Company in 1930, Louis Romanet was employed at various times as an agent for N...

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...

Abasand Oils Ltd.

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North Star Oil Company.

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Revillon Frères Trading Company

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Alberta and Arctic Transportation Co.

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