Contract between Antoine Clement dit l'Allemand de Maskinonge and outfitter Archibald Norman McLeod, partner, for McTavish, McGillivrays & Co. The voyageur receives an advance of 20 piastres, will receive 6 when leaving. Contract duration is three years. Payment is for 700 livres per annum. Position given as "wintering" milieu. Destination of posts of the Northwest in Upper Canada.

Contract between Amable Volignie of Maskinonge and outfitter Archibald Norman McLeod, partner, for McTavish, McGillivrays & Co. The voyageur receives an advance of 10 piastres, will receive 20 when leaving. Contract duration is three years. Payment is for 700 livres per annum. Position given as "wintering" milieu. Destination of posts of the Northwest in Upper Canada.

Contract between Pierre Lezotte of Maska and outfitter Archibald Norman McLeod, partner, for McTavish, McGillivrays & Co. The voyageur receives an advance of 8 piastres, will receive 6 when leaving. Contract duration is three years. Payment is for 700 livres per annum. Position given as "wintering" milieu. Destination of posts of the Northwest in Upper Canada.

Contract between Pascal l'Auguste dit Petit, Constant Lonctain, of St. Constant and outfitter Archibald Norman McLeod, partner, for McTavish, McGillivrays & Co. The voyageurs receives an advance of 40 piastres, will receive 25 when leaving. Contract duration is three years. Payment is for 1200 livres per annum. Position given as "wintering" milieu. Destination of posts of the Northwest in Upper Canada.

Contract between Joseph Proux of Sorel and outfitter Archibald Norman McLeod, partner, for McTavish, McGillivrays & Co. The voyageur receives an advance of 15 piastres, will receive 10 when leaving. Contract duration is three years. Payment is for 700 livres per annum. Position given as "wintering" milieu. Destination of posts of the Northwest in Upper Canada.

Contract between Louis La Valle[e] and Joseph La Valle[e], sons of Joseph, of Sorel, and outfitter Archibald Norman McLeod, partner, for McTavish, McGillivrays & Co. The voyageurs receives an advance of 8 piastres, will receive 6 when leaving. Contract duration is three years. Payment is for 700 livres per annum. Position given as "wintering" milieu. Destination of posts of the Northwest in Upper Canada.

The collection consists chiefly of a document written by Stanley Goddard detailing a 1766-1767 voyage by canoe from Michilimackinac up Lake Superior to the Mississippi. There is a docket title given on verso: "Copy of Mr. Goddard's Journal - 29th August 1767." These pages, ostensibly copied from Goddard's daily journal in his capacity as secretary to the detachment, describe a voyage under the command of Captain James Tute, with Goddard as second and secretary.

Appended to the journal pages there is a document entitled, "Return of such Western Indians as are now at this Post” (that is, the post at Michilimackinac). The document may have been created after 1805, because it appears to contain a reference to the Shawnee Prophet (Tenskwatawa, 1775-1836). The page includes a table of demographic information for Indigenous tribes, including numbers of men, women, children, and total population figures. The people enumerated include the Kickapoo (Kiikaapoa or Kiikaapoi); the "Sawkee" (Sauk, Sac, or oθaakiiwaki) and Meskwaki (Meshkwahkihaki); the Wyandot (or Wendat); Shawnees of "the Prophet's Band" and other bands of Shawnees (Shaawanwaki, Ša˙wano˙ki and Shaawanowi lenaweeki); Ottawa and Chippewa (Odaawaa or Odawa and Ojibwe); Muensee (mə́n'si·w); Delaware (or, Lenape); "Moravians" (probably Christian, or Moravian, Munsee); and Seneca-Cayuga (Guyohkohnyo or Gayogohó:no).

File contains 1 bound volume consisting of copies of correspondence written by Joseph Frobisher while he held an important role in the North West Co. from 15th April 1787 to 20th October 1788. All letters written from Montreal and sent to various business relations.