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From: marianne <>
Subject: RE: [CAN-HBC] more
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 08:33:27 -0800
In-Reply-To: <000701c52788$ac2923e0$c0d5fea9@plusa3jds5hiue>


Lauraine

My ex husband was a Smith. Frank Smith his father was born in Cloverdale
Manitoba.
That's all I have found out so far, but was wondering if there is a
connection. My ex was born about 1929 and he had two older brothers.
Marianne

-----Original Message-----
From: Lauraine Syrnick [mailto:]
Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2005 8:54 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [CAN-HBC] more

Hi Alex:

Thanks am off to look. My G. Grandfather came to Canada with the HBC -
hired on at Stromness in 1862 - he was a Shetlander. Hope to find out if he
came through the Hudsons Bay are or ?? Have just signed up for the Shetland
DNA project. Maiden name was SMITH - thus SMITHs are from Shetland. I am
paying for the DNA and my 92 yr. old father will provide the sample if still
alive when kit comes. Otherwise have to first male cousins who bear the
name of SMITH - why do these tests seem anti-female?? Cheers.

Lauraine
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From: <>
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Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2005 10:48 PM
Subject: [CAN-HBC] more


> Hi Lauraine
> I'm sure it would be available at the HBC Archives in Winnipeg. I found
> it in the post journals for Edmonton. Reel number 1M49. Also the HBC men
> had problems with the quality of the tobacco they had to trade. The NWC
> had
> something called "Carrot Tobacco" which the Natives preferred but the HBC
> only had Brazil Tobacco which came in coils( I think). This is a
> description of the HBC product from the same reel:
>
> Nov. 6 1808 James Bird in Edmonton
> "it resembles in Appearance a Bar of rusty Iron and it's Consistance may
> be compared to a Decayed Cabbage Stalk"
>
> I've posted quite a bit of stuff previously on the Metisgen mailing list:
>
> http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Ethnic-Mixed/METISGEN.html
>
> My favorite so far has been George Sutherland's Journal. If you do a
> search
> in the Metisgen archives with "George Sutherland" in quotes for 2001 you
> should find it.
>
> Alex
>
>
>
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