Ovide de Montigny
Ovide de Montigny was a
Pacific Fur Company
de Montigny was hired by
.de Montigny accompanied the other hired employees and McKay in August and traveled to
Fort Astoria
In the middle of April, de Montigny and his fellow PFC employees began work on what would become
Continuing up the Columbia, the party met the prominent
Late in June 1811, he and three men were sent to Youngs Bay to collect tree bark in large quantities. The material was used for siding and roofing for the structures of Fort Astoria.[4] de Montigney and the men returned several days later, having not found a satisfactory source of bark.[5]
The Tonquin
Shortly before the Tonquin departed to trade with various Indigenous nations on Vancouver Island in June 1811, McKay selected Montingny to accompany him. Montingny however declined, citing an issue with sea sickness.[6] After Jonathan Thorn insulted an elder Tla-o-qui-aht man by slapping him in the face with a beaver pelt, the Tonquin was destroyed. The only known survivor of the crew was the Quinault interpreter Joseachal, who arrived back at Fort Astoria through assistance of prominent Lower Chinookan noble Comcomly.[7]
Fort Okanogan
de Montigny was among the PFC employees dispatched into the interior to establish Fort Okanogan.[8] It was here he remained until the North West Company absorbed the Pacific Fur Company.[9] de Montigny worked in various capacities for the NWC in the region until it was in turn merged into the Hudson's Bay Company.[1]
Citations
- ^ a b Watson 2010, p. 698.
- ^ a b Franchere, pp. 104–108.
- ^ a b Franchère 1854, pp. 110–115.
- ^ McDougall 1999, pp. 23–24.
- ^ McDougall 1999, p. 28.
- ^ Franchere, p. 117.
- ^ Jones 1997, p. 302.
- ^ Franchere, p. 131.
- ^ Franchere, p. 278.
Bibliography
- Franchère, Gabriel (1854), Narrative of a voyage to the Northwest coast of America, in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814, or, The first American settlement on the Pacific, translated by J. V. Huntington, New York City: Redfield
- Jones, Robert F. (1997), "The Identity of the Tonquin's Interpreter", Oregon Historical Quarterly, 98 (3), Oregon Historical Society: 296–314
- Watson, Bruce M. (2010), Lives Lived West of the Divide: A Biographical Dictionary of Fur Traders Working West of the Rockies, 1793-1858, Okanagan: The Centre for Social, Spatial and Economic Justice of the University of British Columbia
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