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Article: The quality of friendship: Andrew McDermot and George Simpson.(Gazette)
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- Manitoba History
- Article date:
- September 22, 2003
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Friendship has many degrees. Ranging from acquaintance to deep kinship, it encompasses a huge swath of human emotional interchange but at core keeps one aspect, a bond of affection. Beyond that bond may lie anything from rivalry to close co-operation, self sacrifice to patronisation, patronage to hospitality, similarity and opposition, and so forth, ad infinitum. In the case of the friendship between George Simpson, Governor of The Hudson's Bay Company in the mid nineteenth century, and Andrew McDermot, free trader of the Red River colony, the spectrum covered included many of the abovementioned qualities. The two men were close in age but of different countries and ...
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