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This third and final series of the McLoughlin letters “furnishes ample evidence that Sir George Simpson’s visit to the Pacific Coast in 1841-42 was the turning-point in McLoughlin’s later career,” wrote W. Kaye Lamb in the introduction. “To it McLoughlin himself ascribed the tragic events and bitter controversies that darkened his last years in the service of the Hudson’s Bay Company.” McLoughlin’s plans for a chain of coastal posts were dashed as Simpson advocated using ships instead. Two appendixes provide extensive supplementary documents relating to the period covered by this letter series, including the dispute over Willamette Falls and the protection of British interests in Oregon as the 49th Parallel was chosen as the international boundary with the United States
- Imprint: Champlain Society
- Published: January 2013