Mcleod John 1788-1849 Born In Scotland Entered The Service Of The
Hudson's Bay Company; conducted Selkirk's colonists from York Factory to
the Red River, 1811; from that date to the union of the two fur
companies in 1821, engaged in building trading-posts and extending the
operations of the Hudson's Bay Company towards the Rocky Mountains. Had
taken a leading part in the long conflict between the Hudson's Bay
Company and the North West Company, some account of which is given in
his d
ary, 1814-1815, reproduced in part in Bryce's Hudson's Bay
Company. On the union of the Companies, given charge of the New
Caledonia department, west of the mountains, where he remained for many
years, finally retiring from the service, and spending the remainder of
his days on the banks of the Ottawa. =Index=: (Mackenzie / Selkirk / Simpson era) Leads the Selkirk
colonists in their opposition to Cuthbert Grant and the half-breeds,
175; his journal, 175, 176; builds house for governor, 176. (Sir James Douglas era) Ascends
upper Liard to its southern source in Dease Lake, 1834, 123. =Bib.=:
Bryce, Hudson's Bay Company; Burpee, Search for the Western Sea.