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JOHN TOD TIME LINE (1794 to 1839) |
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1811 to 12 Hudson's Bay Company Training and Company Attire |
1818 "Country" Marriage to Catherine Briston. Birth of Son James |
1823 Appointment to New Caledonia at McCleod Lake |
1832 One-year leave; returns to York Factory |
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1794 Tod born in Scotland |
1811 Tod joins the Hudson's Bay Company |
1813 to 1821 Fort Severn to York Factory |
1821 Description of "Norwesters" and "English" Coalition Banquet |
1826 to 1829 Alliance with the "Singing Girl" and birth of a daughter |
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1833 Tod in charge of Nelson River and establishes Fort Seaborn |
1834 Tod Visits Europe |
1835 Tod at Fort Alexander, York Factory District |
1836 Tod at Oxford House |
1838 Tod returns to Canada and purchases land in St. Thomas for his family to emigrate. Placed Emma with Mr. Greenshield and family in Montreal |
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1834 Tod receives Chief Tradership Commission |
1834 Tod's marriage to Eliza Waugh |
1835 Birth of Emmeline Jane, Dec. 3 |
1837 Tod granted leave of absence to take mentally ill wife Eliza back to England |
1839 Tod appointment at Fort Alexander |
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JOHN TOD TIME LINE 1841 to 1882
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1841 Murder of Black at Fort Kamloops |
1846 War averted through Tod's smallpox hoax |
1849 Travelled with his family to the coast arriving in Fort Nisqually. By November he was in Victoria. By December he chooses property for house. |
1850 Tod Purchases 100 acres of farming land at Oak Bay, Victoria, from the Hudson's Bay Company. |
1851 August 30 Tod appointed by Governor Blanshard to the Legislative Council to administer the Government, along with James Douglas and James Cooper. |
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1843 to 44 Tod's "Country Marriage" to Sophia Lolo |
1847 Tod's "Barrel of Gun Powder Incident" Tod has 3 children by now |
1850 Returns to Nisqually to give Dr. Tolmie a leave of absence for one month |
1851 Construction of Tod House on the Oak Bay property |
1852 June 1 Tod retires from the Hudson's Bay Company |
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1857 Eliza Tod (neé Waugh), Tod's mentally ill wife, dies in Guys Hospital, London, England |
1853 Tod resigns from the Legislative Council one month before the colony of British Columbia was created. |
1863 Tod formally marries Sophia Lolo |
1882 August 31 Tod dies. |
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