John Siveright

{{short description|Canadian fur trader}} {{Use British English|date=August 2017}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2017}} '''John Siveright''' was a fur trader and later became Chief Factor of the Hudson's Bay Company. Born 2 December 1779 in Drumdelgy, Cairnie, Scotland, he was the son of John Siveright I and Jannet Glass.

Siveright began in the fur trade with the New North West Company (sometimes known as the XY Company) on a seven-year contract in 1799.<ref>[http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~qcmtl-w/BeaverClub.html Roll of the Beaver Club] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090101172617/http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~qcmtl-w/BeaverClub.html |date=2009-01-01 }}</ref> The New North West Company merged into the North West Company in 1804 he continued his service. By 1815, when he was at Fort La Reine (Portage la Prairie, Man.), he was cited by the Hudson's Bay Company as part of a conspiracy by the NWC to destroy the Red River Colony. He was at Fort Gibraltar when Duncan Cameron was arrested and was charged as an accessory in the murder of Governor Robert Semple a short time later. The charges against him were not pursued to conclusion because of other acquittals. In 1817 he became a member of the Beaver Club.

John married a Metis woman named Louise Roussin.<ref>[http://www.glenbow.org/collections/search/findingAids/archhtm/sinclair.cfm Warren Sinclair's Metis Genealogy collection at the Glenbow Museum] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081021135538/http://www.glenbow.org/collections/search/findingAids/archhtm/sinclair.cfm |date=2008-10-21 }}</ref> They had a daughter named Josephte who married Alexis Goulet and had numerous children including Maxime, Elzear and Leonide Goulet, who was the grandfather of George R. D. Goulet.<ref>[http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/g/o/u/Pierre--Goulet/GENE2-0008.html Descendants of Thomas Goulet]</ref>

He died 4 September 1856 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and is buried in Warriston Cemetery in Edinburgh.<ref>[http://genforum.genealogy.com/sievewright/messages/15.html Genforum: Siverights in Aberdeen]</ref>

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== External links == *[http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=4190&&PHPSESSID=si1r71q4q32s2gpcmbfi1u2802 Biography at the ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online''] * [http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/siveright_j.shtml ''Manitoba Historical Society - John Siveright'']

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