Cuthbert Grant and the Battle of Seven Oaks

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Cuthbert Grant's post on the Qu'Appelle River fed the North West Company's canoe brigades.

The bags are packed. Load the canoes and keep the trades fair!

Bags of pemmican, about 90 pounds each

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A crew leaves Grant's post with 3 bags of pemmican — about 270 pounds — and eats about 9 pounds a day.

The food left follows a pattern: F = 270 − 9d, where d is days of travel. Will it last?

3 bags ≈ 270 lb

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As a North West Company clerk, Grant kept accounts: pounds of pemmican, pelts traded, and money in North West livres — 12 livres made 1 pound (£) Halifax currency.

Rival posts stood close by, and traders went where the deal was best. Keep the accounts!

Value was counted in pelts