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Colnett, James (bap. 1753, d. 1806), naval officer and fur trader, was baptized on 18 October 1753 at Stoke Damerel parish church, Plymouth, the son of James and Sarah Colnett. He went to sea in June 1770 as an able seaman in the ...

Fraser, Simon (1776–1862), explorer and fur trader, was born on 20 May 1776 at Mapletown, Hoosic township, New York, the youngest of the ten children of Simon Fraser (1725?–1779?) of Culbokie and Guisachan (a cadet branch of the highland Frasers of Lovat), a farmer, and his wife, ...

Heritage, John (c. 1470–c. 1536), sheep farmer and dealer in wool, was known to his contemporaries as a woolman or woolmonger. He was born about 1470, probably at Burton Dassett in Warwickshire, the son of Roger Heritage (d. 1495), a farmer of some substance, and his wife, ...

Jones, Owen [pseud. Owain Myfyr] (1741–1814), literary patron and furrier, was born on 3 September 1741 at Tyddyn Tudur, in the parish of Llanfihangel Glyn Myfyr, Denbighshire, the son of Hugh Jones (d. 1778), yeoman, and his wife, Catherine Humphreys (1700?–1795)...

McGill, James (1744–1813), fur trader and politician in Canada, was born on 6 October 1744 in Stockwell Street, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, the second child and eldest son of James McGill (bap. 1717, d. 1784) and his wife, Margaret Gibson. His father, grandfather, and great-grandfather ...

McTavish, Simon (1750–1804), fur trader and merchant, was born in Stratherrick, the son of John McTavish (d. 1774) of Garthbeg, a lieutenant in the 78th foot, a Highland regiment. McTavish's rise from humble beginnings to control of a mercantile empire stretching from the ...

Portlock, Nathaniel (b. in or before 1747, d. 1817), naval officer and fur trader, was probably born at or near Norfolk, Virginia, possibly the son of Charles Portlock (d. after 15 February 1750) and his wife, Lydia, née Ridley (d. after 1756)...

Ross, Alexander (1783–1856), fur trader and author, was born in Nairnshire, Scotland, on 9 May 1783, son of Alexander Ross, farmer at Layhill Dyke. He emigrated in 1804, taught for one year in Lower Canada and then in Glengarry county, Upper Canada, and saved ...