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Elizabeth Jane (Rusty) North was born on December 10, 1921, in Buffalo, New York.

She was an American poet, painter, and printer. She married a photographer John Livingston North ( -1974). Despite the loss of her right hand in a printing press accident, Rusty’s determination and courage enabled her to learn to write and paint with her left hand and to raise her five children. She was a dedicated pacifist who actively engaged together with her husband in antiwar and civil rights demonstrations during the 1950s and early 1970s. In 1970, they settled in Port Townsend, Washington, where they joined the Port Townsend Worship Group. In 1983, she joined University Friends Meeting and in 2002, she became a founding member of the new Port Townsend Friends Meeting. Rusty served on several Meeting committees, including the Committee for Peace and Social Concerns. Under the name "Sagittarius Press" Rusty also published her own poetry and that of others in small chapbooks on a hand-operated letter-set press. She returned to school and received a graduate degree in psychology from Antioch University when she was 60. She published books of poems "Port Townsend poems" (1976), "Christmas Past (1977), "Little Old Lady in Tennis Shoes" (1990) and "Fog" (1992).

She died on September 12, 2010, in Port Townsend, Washington.

Ernest Dressel North was a prominent antiquarian bookseller, born in New York in 1858. He opened his shop in 1902 and retired in 1944. He potentially had the world's largest collection on Charles Lamb and had prominent clients, including Henry C. Folger. In March 1920 he had the winning bid on the original manuscript for Shelley’s “Julian and Maddalo, a Conversation”, paying over $16,000.

The North West Company was a fur-trading organization formed over the course of the first decades following the British conquest of Canada. It was not a chartered company like the Hudson's Bay Company, but a syndicate of a number of individual fur-trading firms. Later, however, it came to be dominated by the Montréal partnership of McTavish, Frobisher and Co. (later McTavish, McGillivrays and Co.). Although there are references to a North West Company as early as 1776, the first documented union of interests was a 16-share concern formed in 1779. However, a new agreement drafted in 1783 is commonly considered to have inaugurated the Company. The expansion of the North West Company's trade was rapid: in the person of Alexander Mackenzie, it reached to the Arctic Ocean in 1789 and to the Pacific in 1793. After 1812, the Company faced intense competition from the Earl of Selkirk, who had acquired a controlling interest in the Hudson's Bay Company. Although the North West Company defeated Selkirk in the courts, its financial position had deteriorated by 1820, and in 1821 it was absorbed by the Hudson's Bay Company.