Journal entry 42: 1776
I am John Franklin’s great grandson, James Franklin. I have, after all these years found his great journal that my father used to tell stories about. He would say that every time the journal came out either something really good or really bad was happening or had already happened. I have very good news today. I have finally got a job at the Hudson’s Bay Company, as for four generations of my family have. I am a carrier (I carry the furs in a cart to Quebec where they are sent to Europe in large ships, from port to port. I find joy in traveling, it sooths me.
Now the competition for the fur trade has made a surprising turn. The traders in Montreal have all joined together to form The North West Company. The merchants in Montreal, however, trade differently than the HBC. They go out from their post west to find and hunt for furs. This makes it harder for them. But they cannot do anything else. They do not have a strong relationship with the aboriginals and they would come to us with the furs before they went to them.
James Franklin
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