Tod, John

TOD, John, fur trader (b Oct 1794, Dumbartonshire, Scotland; d 31 Aug 1882, Victoria). He came to Canada in 1811 as a clerk with the HBC attached to Lord Selkirk's group of colonists bound for the Red River. Instead he was sent to a trading post in northern Manitoba, where he remained for several years. Following union with the NORTH WEST CO in 1821 he was posted to York Factory, but he got on the wrong side of HBC governor George SIMPSON, who transferred him to NEW CALEDONIA, "the Siberia of...

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