Uitverkoop John Tod, rebel in the ranks – Robert C. Belyk

Canada’s western wilderness was the scene of fur trader John Tod’s extraordinary life. Born in a Scottish village in 1794, Tod spent 40 adventurous years working for the Hudson’s Bay Company and in his later years, served on the first Legislative Council of the fledgling colony of Vancouver Island. Posted all over the Company’s vast territory – York Factory, McLeod Lake, Fort Alexandria, Island Lake, Fort Kamloops – he spent most of his years in New Caledonia. A spirited and prickly man he was a free thinke…