WEDDERBURN, ALEXANDER, businessman, office holder, and author; b. c
domination. When Alexander Henry*, one of the first English traders to come to the region, arrived at Fort Michilimackinac in 1761, Minweweh and
Nova Scotian family that traced its lineage back to a son of Daniel McCurdy of Ballykelly (Northern Ireland). This son (Arthur’s great-grandfather), Alexander “the Pioneer,” immigrated to Windsor, N.S
.
On 8 June 1861 McKenney had been chosen a petty magistrate, and on 25 Nov. 1862 Alexander Grant Dallas, governor of
, ALEXANDER, Indian agent, furtrader, and local official; b. c. 1735 in western Pennsylvania, son of Irish trader Thomas McKee and a Shawnee woman (or possibly a white captive of the
LAIRD, ALEXANDER, farmer, shipbuilder, and politician; b. in 1797, probably in Stirling, Renfrewshire, Scotland
from the New North West Company (sometimes called the XY Company), which had been absorbed into the NWC in November 1804 [see Sir Alexander
shipper and forwarder and apparently his brother. His earliest assignments were to the Lower Red River where, according to Alexander Henry
organizers in 1862 (with John Matthew Jones, Dr Alexander Forrester*, Dr J. B
political organization on the part of O’Lone and McKenney, Scott was nominated the Winnipeg delegate at a nominating meeting duly held but attended by the American party only. The moderates led by Alexander
Gregory* of Montreal in the firm of Gregory, MacLeod and Company. This firm provided the main opposition to the North West Company; one of its wintering partners was Alexander
of 1812; m. first John F. Brown (d. in or before 1871); m. secondly 9 Jan. 1877 Alexander C. Bailey (d. 1886) in Halifax; m. there thirdly 4 Feb. 1911 George Washington
STEWART, WILLIAM SNODGRASS, lawyer, judge, and politician; b. 13 Feb. 1855 in Marshfield, P.E.I., son of Alexander Stewart
.
Norman Wolfred Kittson was educated at the grammar school in William Henry (Sorel, Que.). He was drawn to the fur trade by the stories he heard from traders, including Alexander
Peter’s parish, for a career as a schoolmaster and interpreter. In July 1854 he was the Church Missionary Society’s schoolmaster at Moose Lake, and from 1855 to 1859 he taught at Fort Alexander. He
Charles Friel operated a general store. Orphaned in the 1830s, Henry Friel apprenticed to Alexander James Christie*, proprietor of the
Westminster, B.C., as Report on portions of the Williams Lake and Cariboo districts, and on the Fraser River, from Fort Alexander to Fort George and Report of a journey of survey
Gregory, MacLeod and Company, who built nearby at about the same time. Grant was in the Athabasca region in 1788, and the continued existence of both posts was noted by Alexander
trader Norman Wolfred Kittson*, had only begun when Finlayson left Red River [see Alexander