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Agreement

File contains a 6 year business agreement including Todd McGill and Co. and Forsyth Richardson and Co. as partners in the North West Co. in 1792.

North West Company

Letter and subpoena

File include two items: a letter from William McGillivray to Jacob Oldham concerning trade between Lower Canada and Bermuda and subpoena for Joseph Briere to appear in a cause in which one of the requestors is William McGillivray.

Two partnership documents

File contains 2 documents (copies) from the beginning of the North West Company. One document is a copy of the preamble and signatures from the 1790 North West Company articles of agreement signed at the company's many depot in Grand Portage on the shores of Lake Superior. This document outlines the division of the shares among the various NWC partners. The other document is a copy of the 1792 business agreement between the North West Co. and the Grant Campion Co.