Fur trader, natural scientist.
Born in Scotland in the 1730s, he joined the Hudson's Bay Company in 1749. He served as master of Fort Severn, acting chief of York Factory, and, in 1774-75, chief factor of Fort Prince of Wales. He retired to Edinburgh in 1775. He wrote an elaborate series of manuscript “Observations” beginning in the 1760s, mainly about natural history and Company trading methods, which were eventually published as Andrew Graham’s Observations on Hudson Bay, 1767-91 (1969). In the eighteenth century much of his scientific work was improperly appropriated by Thomas Hutchins, who used it to gain a reputation as a natural scientist.
See also:
“Andrew Graham and Thomas Hutchins: Collaboration and Plagiarism in 18th-Century Natural History,” by Glyndwr Williams, The Beaver (spring 1978): 4-14.
Andrew Graham, Dictionary of Canadian Biography V, 362-63.
Dictionary of Manitoba Biography by John M. “Jack” Bumsted, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1999.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 9 October 2020
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