Nicholas Montour

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Nicholas Montour (1756 – August 6, 1808) was a fur trader, seigneur, and political figure in Lower Canada.

He was born in the province of New York in 1756, the son of Andrew Montour and Sally Ainse, and the grandson of Madame Montour. In 1774, he was employed as a clerk in the fur trade by Joseph and Benjamin Frobisher on the Churchill River in what is now Manitoba and later worked in what is now Saskatchewan. Montour owned shares in the North West Company. In 1792, he retired from the fur trade with a fortune of £20,000 and settled at Montreal where he was a member of the Beaver Club.

In 1794, he bought the Montreal Distillery Company from

district in 1799. In the same year, he took up residence at Pointe-du-Lac, where he built a handsome dwelling house and large flour and saw mills. He might have increased his fortune by a great extent but his style of living and free and generous disposition led to the loss of his money.

He died on the seigneury of

.

His son, also named Nicholas, went on to work for the Hudson's Bay Company.

See also

• Montour family

External links

• "Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.
• "Nicholas Montour". Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online ed.). University of Toronto Press. 1979–2016.

Political offices
Preceded by Tory	Tory	Succeeded by Tory