Joseph Larocque

JOSEPH LAROCQUE

Hudson's Bay Company Chief Trader

Joseph Larocque, whose brother François-Antoine was also active in the fur trade, was the son of François-Antoine Larocque, member for the county of Leinster (L’Assomption) in the first parliament of Lower Canada, and Angélique Leroux, and may have been the child, baptized François, born 20 Sept. 1786 at L’Assomption, Province of Quebec [Dictionary of Canadian Biography] http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/larocque_joseph_9E.html

Kamloops in British Columbia

In 1812, David Stuart of the American Pacific Fur Company built Fort Shuswap at the site of the present-day town of Kamloops. That same year, Joseph Laroque of the Montreal-based North West Company established a trading post across the river from the fort, where the Kamloops reserve would later be established. These were the first colonial outposts within the territory of the Secwepemc Nation [Wii'nimkiikaa: Secwepemc History of Resistance] https://wiinimkiikaa.wordpress.com/secwepemc-history-of-resistance/

Marriage à la façon du pays

Ron Ignace has this to say about Joseph Larocque: "The first factor of the Northwest Company (at Kamloops) was Joseph Larocque, who reputedly married an Indian woman of the area, Chief N’kwala’s sister Sukwmelqs" [Our Oral Histories are Our Iron Posts: Secweemc Stories and Historical Consciousness by Ron Ignace (Stesmel’ecqen), M.A., University of British Columbia, 1979, page 227 where Ignace cites Teit (1930)] http://www.bcuc.com/documents/proceedings/2010/doc_25612_c8-3_lakes...

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Biographical Account

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Dictionary of Canadian Biography http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/larocque_joseph_9E.html