Note 101 — Chapter XV

Although the son of an independent trader, Angus Shaw was from an early date connected with the North West Company. In 1789 he built a trading house on Lac d’Original, Beaver River waters, and in 1792 built Fort George, one of the Saskatchewan posts better known as “Fort des Prairies.” As one of the wintering partners of the North West Company, he signed by attorney the Montreal agreement of 1804, by which the X Y Company was absorbed. In 1819 he was one of the North West partners captured by the agents of the Hudson’s Bay Company; after some months’ imprisonment he was sent to England, and there released. Shaw was nicknamed “Monsieur Le Chat,” apparently a pun on his name.—Ed.