Accession N-2015-002 - John Andrew Paterson collection

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John Andrew Paterson collection

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Northwest Territories Archives

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N-2015-002

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  • 1913-1946 (Creation)
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    Paterson, John

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1.7 cm of textual records and 38 photographs (black and white prints)

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Paterson, John

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John Andrew Paterson (Jock) was born in Greenock Scotland in 1886. He was the fourth child and third son of Donald Paterson and Elspeth McKay. John studied to become a Chief Engineer before working with the Northern Trading Company between 1911 and 1914. He joined the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve in October 1914 and did not return to Canada until 1919 where he worked summers on the Mackenzie River and spent winters with his brother Dan at a trading post in Embarrass River, Alberta. He met up with Jack Stark on Great Slave Lake near Snowdrift River where they traded as Stark & Paterson until his return to Scotland in 1928. On returning to Britain, he had a job with Baker Perkins as a servicer engineer and married Mary Rennie in 1929. They had one child, Helen Major (nee Paterson) in 1930. In July 1949, John Paterson died from lung cancer.

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The textual records include a diary and a notebook written by John Paterson, a letter from Jack Stark to John Paterson and a pamphlet of the Northern Transit Service. The diary recounts Mr. Paterson's time as a trapper and fur trader in the Snowdrift (Lutselk'e) area from the fall of 1924 to the summer of 1925. The notebook describes Mr. Paterson's arrival in Canada and how he came to be in the North.

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