Description
Archibald McDonald was once one of the vital essential fur traders in the region west of the Rockies. He’s particularly remembered as a factor at Forts Langley, Kamloops, and Colville, and as one of the crucial traders who enabled the Hudson’s Bay Company to gain keep an eye on of the vast region west of the Rockies.
A pioneer cartographer, he also prepared the first censuses of Kamloops and Fort Langley. On this informative and entertaining number of letters, his life as a factor, circle of relatives man, amateur naturalist, and close observer of the whole thing going on around him provides an invaluable glimpse of both the man and the Pacific Northwest.