Fur trader.
He is to be distinguished from another HBC servant named James Sutherland with whom he was contemporaneous.
Born probably in the Orkney Islands, he joined the Hudson’s Bay Company as a tailor in 1770. He was ordered to London in 1775 and re-signed with the HBC in 1777. He was extremely versatile and became a successful inland trader, establishing posts on the Winnipeg River. He headed Osnaburgh House in 1794 and took over Brandon House in 1796, dying there shortly after his arrival.
See also:
“James Sutherland: Inland Trader 1751-1797” by Shirlee Smith, The Beaver, Winter 1975: 18-23.
James Sutherland by Shirlee Anne Smith, Dictionary of Canadian Biography IV, 727-28.
Dictionary of Manitoba Biography by John M. “Jack” Bumsted, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1999.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 11 February 2025
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