Antoine Collin

Antoine Collin
Occupation	Canoe-maker

For the person of this name in the North West Company account books, 1820 (Fort William, 1820), see Antoine Collin (Fort William, 1820).

For a person of a similar name, see Antoine Collin (1871 census).

Antoine Collin ('Old Collin') was the canoe-maker at Fort William in 1836, who tightened and gummed the light canoes for the Northern Department each spring and travelled to Michipicoten and Sault Ste. Marie.^[1]

In September 1836 the journal records a quarrel in which his wife left him and set off toward Grand Portage; he followed and fetched her back in October.^[2]

References

↑ Judith Petch, "Selections from the HBC Post Journals of Fort William in the 1820s and 1830s", Papers and Records, vol. XXV (Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, 1997), pp. 54–59. Archived: datum.locker.
↑ Judith Petch, "Selections from the HBC Post Journals of Fort William in the 1820s and 1830s", Papers and Records, vol. XXV (Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, 1997), p. 59. Archived: datum.locker.

[hbc-54-59-1] Judith Petch, "Selections from the HBC Post Journals of Fort William in the 1820s and 1830s", Papers and Records, vol. XXV (Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, 1997), pp. 54–59. Archived: datum.locker.

[hbc-59-2] Judith Petch, "Selections from the HBC Post Journals of Fort William in the 1820s and 1830s", Papers and Records, vol. XXV (Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, 1997), p. 59. Archived: datum.locker.

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