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James Cree was born in Dundee Scotland in 1904. In 1925, he immigrated to Canada and began working for the trading company Revillon Freres, Ltd. He left the employ of Revillon Freres in 1929 to work for the T. Eaton Company in Edmonton. In 1932, he was hired by Northern Traders, Ltd. to run a trading post in Fort Smith. While working in Fort Smith, he married Gladys, who had moved to Edmonton in 1918 and had worked for Revillon Freres. Between the years 1932 and 1938, Gladys and James Cree operated trading posts for the Northern Traders, Ltd. in Fort Smith, Fort Rae, Fort Norman and Fort Simpson. In 1938, they ended their association with Northern Traders and established an independent trading post in Fort Simpson. They ran this post until 1963 when they retired to Victoria, British Columbia. During these years as independent traders, they also acted as local agents for Imperial Oil and Canadian Pacific Airlines.