# Benjamin Frobisher

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{{Short description|Canadian fur trader (1742–1787)}}
{{For|his nephew of the same name|Benjamin Joseph Frobisher}}
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| name    = Benjamin Frobisher
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| birth_date = 1741
| birth_place = [Halifax, West Yorkshire](/source/Halifax%2C_West_Yorkshire)
| death_date = {{death date and age|1787|4|14|1741}}
| death_place = [Montreal](/source/Montreal), [Quebec](/source/Quebec), [Province of Quebec](/source/Province_of_Quebec_(1763%E2%80%931791))
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| known_for  = Leading Montreal [fur trade](/source/fur_trade)r and founding member of the [Beaver Club](/source/Beaver_Club). 
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'''Benjamin Frobisher''' (1741 – April 14, 1787) was born in [England](/source/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain), the son of Joseph Frobisher and Rachel Hargrave and immigrated to Canada about 1763. Two brothers also immigrated to Canada and all three were involved with the [fur trade](/source/fur_trade) and its expansion into the northwest.

In 1770, the three brothers, partnered with [Richard Dobie](/source/Richard_Dobie), had a successful fur trading expedition which went up the [Saskatchewan River](/source/Saskatchewan_River) well past [Fort Bourbon](/source/Fort_Bourbon) situated near the mouth of that river. More successful expeditions followed and in 1779 the Frobishers set up a company that owned two of the sixteen shares in the [North West Company](/source/North_West_Company) established that year. They were among the shareholders who got their fur trade goods from the London merchant [John Strettell](/source/John_Strettell).

At the time of Benjamin's death, the northwest was beginning to be the most important region in the fur trade and a time when the North West Company was on the point of having almost total control of the area's trade. He was one of the seventeen original founding members of the [Beaver Club](/source/Beaver_Club).

== External links ==
* {{cite DCB |first=Fernand |last=Ouellet |title=Frobisher, Benjamin |volume=4 |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/frobisher_benjamin_4E.html}}

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