In 1832, he was freed from his service in the Hudson Bay Company and moved to Grantown, near the Red River Settlement. From 1828 to 1829, he worked for the Hudson Bay Company as a Bowsman at Fort Pelly in the Swan River District and then stayed on as a Steersman from 1829 to 1832. The contract is preserved in the Archives Nationales du Quebec.Īccording to the Hudson Bay Archives, Pierre Guillaume worked for the North West Company at Cumberland House from 1818 to 1821, the year of the union of the North West and Hudson Bay Companies. He was hired to work in the areas controlled by the North West Company. Beek at Ste Anne, Bout de l'Isle, in the west of the Island of Montreal. Sayer enlisted as a coureur des bois with the McTavish, McGillivray & Company on April 7, 1818, as was registered by the notary J.-G. Records from Pointe-Claire, Quebec indicate that he was baptized on July 21, 1815. Sayer was born October 18, 1799, "he natural son of John Sayer of the parish of Sainte Anne," and an Ojibway woman, Marguerite. Pierre Guillaume Sayer (Octo– August 7, 1868) was a Métis fur trader whose trial was a turning point in the ending of the monopoly of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) of the fur trade in North America.
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