Michel Brisbois

Michel Brisbois or Michael Brisbois (1759 with Valley-Maska with the Canada - 1837) practiced the Traite fur. He attended the school with Quebec then turned to the trade of the fur to Mackinac Island in 1778 then in 1781 he goes to Prairie of the Dog with other French Canadians and founds the first permanent community there.

Although posting its sympathy to the British in their fight for the control of the North-West, it enlists in the Milice Territoriale of the Illinois in 1809. During the War of 1812, it approvisonne as well the American troops as British but preserves a pro-British attitude. Stopped for treason at the end of the war, it is sent to St Louis to be judged there, it will be discharged.

It is named judge assessor of the Comté of Crawford by the Governor of the Territoire of Michigan, Lewis Cass (1782-1866), in 1819. It will occupy then various official positions in the area of Meadow of the Dog.

His/her son

His/her son, Bernard Walter Brisbois , born in Prairie of the Dog, starts to him also a career in the trade of the fur like agent of the American Fur Company . He engages later in the business world until in 1873 when he is named Consul of the United States with Verviers in Belgium. He returns to Prairie of the Dog in 1874 and will reside at it until its death.

A second wire, Charles, will make career with the Compagnie of Hudson Bay (CBH). It leaves the Meadow of the Dog in 1812 with his uncle Henry Fisher, both are engaged by the Company of the North-West. Brisbois works in New Caledonia in 1816, and after the coalition of both large company of draft of furs in 1821, it works for the Company of Hudson Bay in the district of the Athabasca. It is transferred to the district from the Mackenzie in 1822, and is then posted with the Fort Norman. It passes to the Fort of Good Hope (1824-25), where it is made in load, returns Norman (1825-33) at the height. It spends two seasons in the district of Cumberland, and returns in Mackenzie in 1835, always as clerk in load, with the Fort of Black poplar (Yukon) where it remains until his retirement. It had founded a family with a woman of the country. Its biography is in E.E. Rich, Minutes off Council Northern Department off Rupert Land, 1821-31 , Toronto, Champlain Society, 1940, and the newspapers which it held as made for the CBH find in the files of the company with Winnipeg. He wrote only in French. According to George Simpson, governor of the CBH, the uncle de Brisbois, Henry Fisher, only very badly English spoke. This last played a big role in the draft of the furs to the Fort Edmonton and in territory which is the Alberta today.

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