| LC control no. | n 79077230 |
|---|---|
| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Simpson, George, Sir, 1786 or 1787-1860 |
| Variant(s) | Simpson, George, Sir, 1786 or 7-1860 Simpson, George, Sir, 1792?-1860 |
| Other standard no. | 0000000081804553 |
| Associated country | Canada |
| Located | Lachine (Montréal, Québec) |
| Birth date | [1786,1787] |
| Death date | 1860-09-07 |
| Place of birth | Lochbroom (Scotland) |
| Place of death | Lachine (Montréal, Québec) |
| Field of activity | Fur trade--Canada |
| Affiliation | Hudson's Bay Company Bank of British North America |
| Profession or occupation | Businesspeople |
| Found in | His A journey round the world, 1847: title page (Sir George Simpson) LC database, 9/5/1994 (hdg.: Simpson, George, Sir, 1786 or 7-1860; Simpson, George, Sir, 1792?-1860; usage: Sir George Simpson; George Simpson; George Simpson, Esqr.) Dictionary of Canadian Biography WWW site, viewed November 16, 2021 (Simpson, Sir George; governor of the HBC, author, and businessman; b. probably in 1786 or 1787 in the parish of Lochbroom, Scotland; d. Sept. 7, 1860 in Lachine, Lower Canada; was appointed governor-in-chief locum tenens of the Hudson's Bay Company in 1820; he became governor of the Northern Department of the HBC in 1821, and was made governor of both Departments in 1826; he subsequently transferred his headquarters and residence to Lachine, Lower Canada; his private business grew considerably; in 1839 he joined the board of directors of the North American Colonial Association of Ireland; during the 1840s and 1850s he served as a director of the Bank of British North America, resigning but a few months before his death in 1860 to take up a directorship in the Bank of Montreal; he also had interests in mining concerns; he was a founding shareholder and director in the Montreal and Lachine Rail-road, chartered in 1846; in 1850 this railway merged with the Lake St Louis and Province Line Railway to form the Montreal and New York Railroad, of which he was also a director; he sat on the board of the Champlain and St Lawrence Railroad, which merged with the Montreal and New York in 1857 to establish the Montreal and Champlain Railroad, where he was a director of the company; he was knighted in 1841; he was one of the principal architects of the HBC monopoly which came to dominate the North American fur trade in the 19th century) |
| Associated language | eng |
 |  |  |
View this record in: MARCXML | LC Authorities & Vocabularies | VIAF (Virtual International Authority File)
