Letitia MacTavish Hargrave

Infobox Person
name = Letitia MacTavish Hargrave

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caption = Letitia MacTavish Hargrave
birth_name = Letitia MacTavish
birth_date = 1813
birth_place = Edinburgh, Scotland
death_date = 18 September 1854
death_place = Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
death_cause = Cholera
resting_place = Toronto, Canada (St. James Cemetery)
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residence = York Factory, Manitoba
nationality = Scottish
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known_for = letterwriter
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religion =
spouse = James Hargrave
children = Joseph James Hargrave
parents = Dugald Mactavish and Letitia Lockhart
relatives = William Mactavish (brother)
footnotes =

Letitia MacTavish Hargrave (born Letitia MacTavish in 1813 in Edinburgh, Scotland) was the eldest of nine children of Dugald Mactavish and Letitia Lockhart. She married Hudson's Bay Company Chief Trader James Hargrave on the 8th of January 1840. The Hargraves lived at Hudson's Bay Company's York Factory from 1840 to 1851, when James was transferred to Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Letitia died of cholera during an epidemic in 1852. She is best known for her letters, which were saved by her family and compiled as a book in 1947 by Margaret MacLeod. [cite book | last = MacLeod | first = Margaret Arnett | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Letters of Letitia Hargrave | publisher = Champlain Society | date = 1947 | location = Toronto | pages = 488 | url =http://link.library.utoronto.ca/champlain/item_record.cfm?Idno=9_96835&lang=eng&query=Hargrave,%20Letitia,%201813-1854.&browsetype=Subject&startrow=1 | isbn = 978-0837150659 ] These letters are an important primary account of pioneer women in 19th century Western Canada.

ee also

*Clan MacTavish

References

Bibliography

*cite book |author=Hargrave, James |title=The Hargrave Correspondence, 1821-1843 (Champlain Society Publication) |publisher=Greenwood Press Reprint |location= |year=1969 |pages= |isbn=0-8371-5062-0 |oclc= |doi= |accessdate=
*cite book |author=McGoogan, Kenneth |title=Fatal passage: the true story of John Rae, the Artic hero time forgot |publisher=Carroll & Graf Publishers |location=New York |year=2002 |pages= |isbn=0-7867-1156-6 |oclc= |doi= |accessdate=
*cite book |author=York, Lorraine Mary; Jennifer Blair; Coleman, Daniel; Kate Higginson |title=ReCalling Early Canada: Reading the Political in Literary and Cultural Production (cuRRents) |publisher=The University of Alberta Press |location=Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |year=2005 |pages= |isbn=0-88864-443-4 |oclc= |doi= |accessdate=

External links

* [http://link.library.utoronto.ca/champlain/item_record.cfm?Idno=9_96835&lang=eng&query=letitia%20AND%20hargrave&searchtype=Fulltext&startrow=21&Limit=All The letters of Letitia Hargrave]
* [http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=38170 Dictionary of Canadian Biography]
* [http://www.furtradestories.ca/details.cfm?content_id=139&cat_id=2&sub_cat_id=1&format_id=3 Fur Trader Stories]