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Manuscript location: Nanaimo Archives, Nanaimo BC
Source(s): HBC fonds: Transcription of J. W. McKay's Journal August 24th, 1852 to September 27, 1854.
Digital location(s): https://www.nanaimoarchives.ca/transcripts-and-recordings/hbc-mckay-journal-1852-1854
The journal is part of the Manuscripts Collection of the Bancroft Library, U of Calfornia, as is his Recollections of a Chief Trader in the Hudson's Bay Company. Later in life he published and lectured on the fur trading system and "The Indians of British Columbia"; for more informatiion see Fraser, Greg N. Joseph William McKay: A Metis Business Leader in Colonial British Columbia. Heritage House, 2021.
Text available: https://www.nanaimoarchives.ca/transcripts-and-recordings/hbc-mckay-journal-1852-1854