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To enable their financial success, the HBC employed a number of very culturally diverse people at Fort Vancouver.
One of the hallmarks of a successfully functioning business is a clear and detailed accounting of its employees, including job titles, pay rates, status of employment contracts, and years of service.
Luckily for researchers and historians wanting to know more about the people the company employed, the HBC was no exception; it tracked this information annually through a document known as an Outfit.
Using the rigid class distinctions of these annual Outfits, please click on one of the links below for more information.
Company Servants
Metis
Company Clerks, Ship Officers, etc.
Barclay, Dr. Forbes
Grahame, James Allan
Mactavish, Dugald
Peers, Henry Newsham
Company Officers
Douglas, Sir James
McLoughlin, Dr. John
Ogden, Peter Skene
Simpson, Sir George
Work, John
Other Fort Visitors
Kane, Paul
