According to his
footnote in The Fort Langley Journals, Donald (1796-1880)
was:
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born in Thurso,
Scotland
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joined the
Hudson's Bay Company in 1817
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arrived at Fort
Vancouver in late 1825
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left Fort Langley
with Governor Simpson in October 1828
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took Felicité
Lucier as his wife
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one of his sons,
John Donald, married Aurelia, daughter of J.M. Yale
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was in charge of
Fort Simpson from 1831 -31
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constructed Fort
McLoughlin in 1843-4
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was in charge of
Kamloops in 1841
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was in charge of
a post on the Stikine in 1843-44
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was in charge of
Fort St James in 1844-57
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retired from Fort
St James to a farm in the Willamette Valley.
For biographies see:
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E.E. Rich ed.
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1938. George
Simpson's Journal of Occurances in the
Athabaska Department and Report 1820-21.
Toronto: Champlain Society for the Hudson's
Bay Record Society 1, page 458
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1955. A
Journal of a Voyage from Rocky Mountain
Portage in the Peace River to the Sources of
Finlays Branch and Northwestward in Summer
1824 by Samuel Black. London:
Hudson's Bay Record Society 18. Pages 222-41
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Harriet Munnick.
1969b. Donald Manson. In The
Mountain Men 7:217-25.
Glendale, California: Arthur H. Clark.
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Kenneth L.
Holmes. 1972. Donald Manson. In Dictionary
of Canadian Biography 10:495-6.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Donald MANSON (born
1798), fur trader, was born in Thurso, Caithness, Scotland,
in 1798; and entered the service of the H.B.C. in 1817. He
was employed at first in the English River district and on
the South Saskatchewan; but in 1827 he was transferred to the
Columbia district, and he remained on the western side of the
Rocky mountains until his retirement in 1858. He was promoted
to the rank of chief trader in 1837, and from 1844-57 he was
in charge of the New Caledonia district, with headquarters at
Stuart Lake. The date of his death has not been ascertained.
source: The
Macmillan Dictionary of Canadian Biographies, edited by
W. Stewart Wallace, third edition.
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