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Edward McGillivray William, Simon and Duncan McGillivray were brothers born in Scotland. They apprenticed with their uncle, Simon McTavish in the North West Company. William married Susan, and had two sons, Simon and Joseph. Both sons worked in the fur trade, for the HBC. William's son Simon married Teresa Roy. Their son, Edward (b. 1816) also worked in the fur trade, for the HBC. He worked at a variety of posts, but was the head Clerk at Jack Fish Lake, Lesser Slave Lake and La La Biche. In 1862 he married Isabella Fraser.Eventually Edward retired and ended up here, at Victoria Settlement, on River lot 7. Between 1880-81 he worked as an agent of the Department of Indian Affairs, and ran their soup-kitchen. In 1882 he was appointed Justice of the Peace. The journal of the Hudson's Bay Post records that McGillivray hosted a large New Years party on January 1891. In 1893 Edward McGillivray moved to St. Albert and he died there three years later. His son Simon hauled mail for Victoria Settlement and became a ferryman there. Read what Edward McGillivray said about Victoria Settlement in the Saskatchewan Herald, 1879 Return to the Fur
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