Notes on Trading Posts, border, etc.
Posts in the Minnesota Fur-Trading Area, 1660-1855 Author(s): Grace Lee Nute Source: Minnesota History, Vol. 11, No. 4 (Dec., 1930), pp. 353-385 Published by: Minnesota Historical Society Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20160873
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7. Vermilion built on the shores of this lake. One belonged to the Northwest Company; the other was in charge of a trader named Roussain, who was probably subordinate to William Aitken of the American Fur Company. Aitken is known to have had a post there in 1824.
Both posts are shown on a manuscript map compiled and drawn by Alfred J. Hill in 1866. On that map Roussain’s post is shown almost due south from the earlier fort, on the headland east below Crane Point. // Two Roussains are mentioned in a list of employees of the American Fur Company in the Fond du Lac department in 1834. //
A permit to take whisky to the post at Vermilion Lake, August 2, 1824, Sibley Papers; Joseph G. Norwood, “Geological Report of a Survey of Survey of Wisconsin,
employees of the Papers ;Alfred J.
Iowa, and Minnesota,
314 (Philadelphia, 1834, American
St Louis
Fur Company, //
Hill, Map of Vermilion//
From Official Licenses to Trade with Indians, 1831 (22 Congress, 1 session, House Executive Documents, no. 121? serial 219).
1866;
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10. Little Vermilion Lake. An early French map shows a post on Vermilion Lake,” the name applied, apparently, to Crane Lake. This name was also employed by such cartographers as David Thompson and Leander Judson. An anonymous map published about 1820 shows a Northwest Company’s post in the same vicinity. At the Northwest Company’s post on Vermilion Lake Dr. John McLoughlin spent the winter of 1807-08.
Collections, 13:202 1833,“ in Michigan
” Carte des nouvelles d?couvertes dans l’Ouest du Canada dress?e . . . “
par Mr de la Galissoniere en 1750,” in a folio volume entitled Am?rique
Septentrionale. Canada,“ library of the … [Read More]
