Joseph James Hargrave

Joseph James Hargrave

Infobox Person
name = Joseph James Hargrave


image_size = 150 px
caption = Joseph James Hargrave (photo by William Notman)
birth_date = April 1, 1841
birth_place = York Factory, Manitoba, Canada
death_date = February 22, 1894
death_place = Edinburgh, Scotland
education =Madras College, St. Andrews, Scotland
occupation =Chief Trader, Hudson’s Bay Company
title =FRGS
spouse =
parents =James Hargrave and Letitia MacTavish
children =
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Joseph James Hargrave (1841-1894) was a Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) trader, author, and journalist. [cite web| title = Manitoba Author Publication Index| work = | publisher = | date = | url = http://www.mbwriter.mb.ca/mapindex/h_profiles/hist_hargrave.html| format = | doi = | accessdate = ] [cite web | title = Fur Trade Stories | url = http://www.furtradestories.ca/details.cfm?content_id=67&cat_id=2&sub_cat_id=3 ] He wrote the 1871 book, "Red River," [cite book | last =Hargrave| first = Joseph James | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Red River| publisher = Printed for the author by John Lovell | date = 1871| location = Montreal| pages = 506| url =http://books.google.com/books?id=p3yHV0tF9REC&dq=red+river+hargrave&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=Mf4Q2NcEyu&sig=tE1Rt8nfMCoGZp5Hd2fUmAoDH90 | doi = | id = | isbn = ] a history of the Manitoba Red River Settlement.

Biography

Joseph James Hargrave was born and raised at York Factory, a fur trading post on Hudson Bay. He was the oldest son of York Factory's Chief Trader James Hargrave and his wife Letitia MacTavish Hargrave. His family took him to Scotland in 1846 where he studied at Madras College, St. Andrews, and completed his studies as a surveyor in 1859. He returned to North America in 1861, where he became an apprentice clerk in the HBC and a secretary to his uncle William Mactavish, the governor of Rupert's Land and Assiniboia. In 1869, he began writing a series of articles for the "Montreal Herald" about the anticipated transfer of land from the HBC to Canada. In 1871, he published the book "Red River" describing the history of the Red River Colony prior to the 1869–1870 Red River Rebellion of Louis Riel.

Before his retirement, he became a Chief Trader in the HBC. He died in 1894 in Edinburgh, shortly after returning to Scotland.

References

ee also

*Fur trade

External links

* [http://www.madras.fife.sch.uk/archive/fpbiographies/hargrave.html Madras College Page]
* [http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=6144 Biography at the "Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online"]


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