Minutes of Council Northern Department of Rupert Land, 1821-31

Covering the years of retrenchment and consolidation of the Hudson's Bay Comapny after the struggle with the North West Company. Also includes:
Letters from the Governor and Committee to the Northern Department, 1821-22
Reports of George Simpson to the Governor and Committee, 1822
Selection from the correspondence of the Northern Department, 1821-22
Biographies of Francois Noel Annance, John Ballenden (from Stromness, Orkney), George Barnston, John Bell, George Bird, James Birnie, Charles W. Bouc, Henry Boulton, Charles Brisbois, John M. Brown, Angus Cameron, Joseph Charles, William Clouston (from Orkney), John Warren Dease, Peter Warren Dease, George Deschambeault, Alexander Douglas, Erland Erlandson, Anthony or Antoine Feistel, Nicol Finlayson, Alexander Fisher, Henry Fisher, Thomas Fleming, Richard Grant, Louis Guiboche, William Kittson, Michel Klyne, Michel Laframboise, Pierre Le Blanc, Allan McDonell, John Richards McKay, Alexander McKenzie, Benjamin Mackenzie, Alexander Roderick Mcleod, James McMillan, Alexander McTavish, Louis Pion (Peon), Clarke Ross, Donald Ross, John Scott (from "Ronaldshay", Orkney), Aemilius Simpson, Thomas Simpson, Thomas Sinclair (from Orkney), William Sinclair (born in Hudson Bay, the son of William Sinclair from Orkney and Nahoway (Margaret), a Cree Indian), John Siveright, John Stewart, George Taylor, John Tod, Andrew Wilson (from Orphir, Orkney).