From: " The (MacMillan) Dictionary of Canadian Biography"
2nd Edition, 1945, Compiled by W. Stewart Wallace, MacMillan Co. of
Canada, Toronto
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Frobisher, Benjamin (1742?-1787), fur-trader, was born in Yorkshire, England, about 1742. He emigrated to Canada, and embarked in the fur-trade as early as 1765, in partnership with John Welles; and he was later associated in turn with James McGill, Richard Dobie, and his brothers Joseph Frobisher and Thomas Frobisher. So far as can be discovered, he never went west of Grand Portage; but he looked after the Montreal end of the business of Frobisher and Co, in which his brothers were partners with him. He died at Montreal on April 14, 1787. [Rev. R. Campbell, A History of the Scotch
Presbyterian Church, St. Gabriel St., Montreal (Montreal 1887) ; G.
C. Davidson, The North West Company (Berkley, Cal., 1919); Can.
Arch. report, 1890, note C.]
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