Narrative of Circumstances attending the death of the late Benjamin Frobisher, Esquire a partner of the North West Company of Montreal, ca. 1820 Revised Text.

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 [Revised Text]. An electronic transcription. MFTP #0020

actions, of which the public and Parliament will be the judges; it is, nevertheless desirable to state a few prominent instances of violent conduct to which one party had recourse, in order to destroy the trade and crush the prosperity of the other.

The first blow aimed at the North West Company was the seizure of their depot of provisions in the Red River country in 18l4; to this succeeded the destruction of their forts or posts of Gibraltar and Pembina; then came Lord Selkirk's seizure and occupation of their head quarters, Fort William, and ultimately the interruption of their northern trade by the outrages committed at the Grand Rapid in June 1819, which led immediately to M^r Frobisher's Death.

It had long been a favorite object with the Hudson's Bay Company to obtain a footing in Athabasca, and to engross 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

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