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North West Company. Men's Names at the Athabasca River Department [etc.], 1805. An electronic transcription. MFTP #0031

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McGill Fur Trade Project Number: MFTP 0031

Masson Number: MASS 2370.3

Notes

References

Unpublished.

Bibliographic Note(s)

38 leaves 32cm x 20.2 cm formed from folded sheets into a single gathering. Laid paper; watermark crowned Britannia and crowned GR 1803. For binding see MFTP 0029 (MASS 2370.1).

Editorial Note(s)

Original.

Good condition.

The manuscript has the note: "The following statement is correct but not intended for publication". This manuscript is closely related to the list of North West Company employees in 1804 published in L.R. Masson, Les Bourgeois de la compagnie du Nord-Ouest, (Québec: Imprimerie générale A. Coté, 1889-1890), vol. I, 395-413. Reprinted: New York: Antiquarian Press, 1960.

The format of the ledgers has been standardized. Terminal punctuation of titles and entries in "Remarks" columns have been omitted. Spaces left by the author to indicate unknown names have been replaced with ellipsis points. Entries in the "Drs" and "Crs" columns have been represented as [pounds]/[shillings]; for example "35/12" is thirty-five pounds and twelve shillings. All names have been transcribed as written although in actuality spellings may be incorrect. Upper and lower case "m", "n", "v" and "w" have been standardized.