Wilcocke, Samuel Hull. Narrative of Circumstances attending the death of the late Benjamin Frobisher, Esquire a partner of the North West Company of Montreal, ca. 1820. An electronic transcription. MFTP #0019
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and ultimately the interruption of their Northern trade by the outrages committed at the Grand Rapid in June 1819 which led immediately to Mr Frobisher's Death.
It had long been a favourite object with the Hudson's Bay Company to obtain a footing in Athabasca and to the profitable trade which the North West Company carried on in that remote and extensive region. They had made several abortive attempts but all their expeditions had resulted in distress, starvation, and death, to those engaged in them, and in disappointment and loss to their employers. The success of the North West Company, and the want of it in those trials of their rivals may be ascribed to the different organization of the two companies, to the experience and providence of the one, and to the inexperience and improvidence of the other.
The only practicable route &c (p. 8)
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