Charles John Brydges

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Charles John Brydges (23 February 1827 in

Halifax, Nova Scotia
. From 1879 until his death he was a Land Commissioner for the Hudson's Bay Company in Winnipeg.

The town

, is named in his honour.


References

  • The Letters of Charles John Brydges, 1879-1882, Hudson's Bay Company Land Commissioner edited by Hartwell Bowsfield. Hudson's Bay Record Society, Volume 31, , Winnipeg, 1977.
  • The Letters of Charles John Brydges, 1883-1889 by E. J. Rea (1981).
  • "'In a Business Way': C. J. Brydges and the Hudson's Bay Company, 1879–89," by Alan Wilson in The West and the Nation, edited by Carl Berger and Ramsay Cook (1976), pages 114-139.
  • Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
  • Biography at the Manitoba Historical Society)