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Reddit mentions of Behind the Palisades. An Autobiography

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Found 2 comments on Behind the Palisades. An Autobiography:

u/Billy_Fish ยท 22 pointsr/history

That could be the George Simpson McTavish mentioned here, who was involved with the Hudson Bay Company (and spent most of 40 years in some very isolated spots apparently). The Manitoba archives have some more info here. He retired in 1880 and could have been in the Quebec area. He even wrote an autobiography seen here.

u/[deleted] ยท 2 pointsr/history

I'm bored and I have an hour left until bedtime so I guess I'll research this a little bit...

G. S. McTavish seems to be correct. Mr. McTavish appears to have been mentioned in a court interview in 1882. From this document we know his first name was George and that he was involved in a rail company. I only skimmed the document because I don't have time to read it all, so there might be something I missed.

A search for George S. McTavish brings up this 1880 document, which shows that he was involved in some sort of railway work (again, not reading it all).

Thanks to that document I know he was from Winnipeg, so Googling his name with that appended brought this up (PDF link). This appears to be Mr. McTavish's son, who ran for political office and wrote a book.

Finally I found this, which says all we really need to know and will end my search for information on McTavish.

As for Dr. Grant, there's just not enough there to find anything. I can't find any record of a Grant that McTavish associated with. There's a chance he could be John Grant, or the James Alexander Grant someone in another comment mentioned, but that's pretty much a guess.