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James Robert Clare
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Fur trader.
Born in England in 1827, he was educated at the Royal Naval School in Camberwell and came to Moose Factory in 1845 as an apprentice clerk of the Hudson’s Bay Company. He served most of the next twenty years at York Factory and by 1858 was head of the post itself. He took charge of the Red River District in 1862 and stood in for Governor McTavish on several occasions. On 23 May 1861, he married Margaret Hannah Sinclair (1843-1921, later married to John Beresford Allan) and they had two sons: James Clare and Arthur Clare. He died suddenly in London, on 3 January 1867, while on private business.
See also:
James Robert Clare, Dictionary of Canadian Biography IX, 130-31.
“Funeral of old timer is held,” Winnipeg Tribune, 13 September 1921, page 11.
Death registration [Margaret Hannah Allan], British Columbia Vital Statistics.
Dictionary of Manitoba Biography by John M. “Jack” Bumsted, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1999.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 29 August 2022
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