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Voyageur contract for Jean-Baptiste Godard of St. Ours
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CA RBD MSG 1108-29
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13 November 1820 (Creation)
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- Montréal (Québec)
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1 sheet ; 30 x 18.5 cm
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Contract between Jean-Baptiste Godard of St. Ours and outfitter Arcibald Norman McLeod, partner, for McTavish, McGillivrays & Co. The voyageur receives an advance of 25 piastres and another 25 when leaving. Contract duration is three years. Payment is for 1000 livres per annum. Position given as "wintering" helmsman. Destination of posts of the Northwest in Upper Canada.
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Mark of Jean-Baptiste Godard, signed by A.N. McLeod.
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"The dating of type MF20 is facilitated by the fact that the phrase "an mil huit cent vingt" is employed. We judge this form to have been printed in the fall of 1828. Note that the list is named empowered partners is now headed by William and Simon McGillivray. The next partner, Archibald Norman McLeod, had by this time become firmly installed, since the tragic death in 1816 of Kenneth MacKenzie, as the Montreal hiring agent of the NWC." (Lande, page 88)
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Lande type MF20h.