Colin Robertson's Correspondence Book, September 1817 to September 1822

Casts light on the period when a union was formed between the Hudson's Bay Company and rival organisation the North West Company. Includes biographies of Joseph Adams, William Auld, Joseph Beioley, Angus Bethune, John palmer Bourke, John Dugald Cameron, John CharlesWilliam Connolly, Patrick Cunningham, Francois Decoigne, Edward Ellice (Senior), Edward Ermatinger, Francis Ermatinger, George Flett (from Firth, Orkney), Ignace Giasson, Joshua Halcro, John Haldane, John Edward Harriott, Frederick Damien Heurter, William Hillier, John Hodgson, John Pocock Holmes, Joseph Howse, John Hutchison, Alexander Kennedy (from South Ronaldsay, Orkney), Owen Keveny, Robert Logan, Jean Baptiste Lagimoniere, William Fletcher Lane, Jean Baptiste Lemoine, Hugh leslie, John Stewart McFarlane, Miles Macdonell, Donald McIntosh, Donald McKenzie, John McLoughlin, Frederick Matthey, George Moffatt, John Murphy, Louis Nolin, Peter Skene Ogden, John Pritchard, James Robertson (from Orkney), John Robertson (from Evie, Orkney), John Rowand (Senior), Robert Semple, William Smith, Adam Snodie (from Orphir, Orkney), Andrew Stewart, James Swain (Junior), Thomas Thomas (Senior), Thomas Vincent.