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Simon McGillivray
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Born1785 (1785)
Dunlichty, Inverness-shire. Scotland
Died9 June 1840(1840-06-09) (aged 54–55)
Blackheath, Kent, England

Simon McGillivray, FRS (c. 1785 – 9 June 1840), played an intricate role in merging the family owned North West Company with the rival Hudson's Bay Company. From 1835, he co-owned the Morning Chronicle and the London Advertiser. He was Provincial Grand Master of Upper Canada (1822–1840); Fellow of the Royal Society at London; a member of the Beaver Club at Montreal and a member of the Canada Club at London.

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around 1787. McTavish, Fraser & Co. was the London agent of Simon McTavish, from about 1790. John Fraser was his cousin. Simon McGillivray worked there...

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Pemmican War

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Richard MacGillivray Dawkins

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John Auldjo

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Beaver Club

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McLaughlin (1807); Hugh McGillis; John McDonald; Allan McDonell; James Grant; John Siveright (1799); John George MacTavish. 1818: Simon McGillivray;...

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Bulkley Valley

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Fort Astoria

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Astoria, though ordered to avoid an armed confrontation. NWC partner Simon McGillivray dramatically claimed that the vessel was sent "to seize or destroy...

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Huron Tract

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Surveyor John McDonald, although Goderich Township was surveyed by Deputy Provincial Surveyor David Gibson. Directors Edward Ellice, Simon McGillivray, Hart Logan...

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Canada Company

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Canadian Chronology (Revised ed.). Dundurn. ISBN 1-55002-543-0. Cameron, James McIntyre; Cameron, June Carolyn (1967). The early days in Guelph: Guelph and...

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Canal Flats

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land mass separating the waterways as McGillivray's Portage. Although probably named after Duncan McGillivray, who accompanied Thompson in 1800 in their...

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Florence Helena McGillivray

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the possession of George McGillivray's descendants. The children attended a grammar school in Whitby, and since McGillivray had shown artistic talent...

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Media Centre". BBC. Retrieved 6 January 2017. Stephen McGann - official publisher page. Simon & Schuster. 27 July 2017. ISBN 9781471160806. Retrieved...

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Samuel Black

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Hudson's Bay Record Society. pp. xxix. McGillvary, Simon. (1988). The North West Company in rebellion: Simon McGillivray's Fort William notebook, 1815. Jean...

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Alexander Auldjo

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Auldjo. The latter married a daughter of William McGillivray and the former was a godson of Simon McGillivray. His nephew, George Auldjo, later became a Montreal...

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John Bercow

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2015. Archived from the original on 21 May 2015. Retrieved 18 May 2015. McGillivray, Kate; Vartanian, Talin (4 October 2019). "Speaker John Bercow reflects...

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Canntaireachd

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Society. p. iii. McGillivray, Jim (2012). Piobaireachd Fingerwork: Instruction in Piobaireachd Technique for the Highland Bagpipe. McGillivray Piping. p. 135...

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Sue Longhurst

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David McGillivray's BBC2 tongue-in-cheek documentary Doing Rude Things. Five years later she wrote the foreword to the first edition of Simon Sheridan's...

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Airport 1975

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box-office, but it's a hasty, superfluous job of formula moviemaking." David McGillivray of The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote that "despite a sterling performance...

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Nigel Green

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University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/94147. ISBN 9780198614111. David McGillivray (1988). "Now you know". Films and Filming. 34 (April 1988). London: 47...

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