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Old 08-17-2016, 10:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Red Bullets View Post
It is interesting how the various FN were displaced and moved when the Cree expanded their territory. Seems the years sort of match up that the Cree would have preceded the traders and trappers by a few years. By the late 1780's the NWco. was already building posts in the area.
I have ancestors on my mother's side, some worked for the HBC and others worked for the NWC at the same time!
Sir John Franklin named the McVicar Arm on Great bear Lake after one of them
Walter William, and Arthur McVicar were running around Northern Alberta in the late 1700's/ early 1800's
IIRC it was William who married a lady in Fort Chipewyan i 1813 , by Franklin himself!
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