The North West Company Agreement of 1795

HEN Dr. Stewart Wallace edited the Documents Relating to the North West Company for the Champlain Society in 1934 he included the Agreements ofthe Company for the years 1790, 1802, and 1804, and in his Introduction reviewed, as well, four other Agreements, for 1779, 1783, 1787, and 1795. Of the latter very little was known and it is therefore specially gratifying that this missing Agreement has now been supplied by Colonel Angus Cameron of Firhall, Nairn, Scotland, from the papers in his possession belonging to his grandfather, Angus Cameron, and his great-grand-uncle, 2Eneas Cameron, both of Timiskaming. The latter became a partner in the North West Company in 1798 under the terms of the Agreement of 1795, and it is his copy, written partly in his own hand, which is reproduced here by the kind permission of Colonel Cameron. Its preamble reveals the existence of still another missing North West Company Agreement, concluded in the year 1792, on which some light has been thrown by the North West Company papers in the possession of the Hudson's Bay Archives. The first Agreement of the North West Company, in 1779/ divided sixteen shares among eight partnerships engaged in the fur trade, two each to Todd & McGill, Beniamin & Joseph Frobisher, McGill & Paterson, McTavish & Co., Holmes & Grant, Wadden & Co., Ross & Co., and Oakes & Co. This sixteen-share concern was continued by the Agreement of 1783 when three shares each went to Simon McTavish and the Frobisher firm, two each to George McBeath, Robert 'Grant, Patrick Small, and Nicholas Montour, and one each to Peter Pond and William Holmes. Dr. Wallace ascribes

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