Murray Hebblethwaite
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We have to remember our Heritage and those persons who worked EXTREMELY HARD to SHAPE Our Countries into what they are today!
"Oneida Sally" - Trader, Land Owner, Diplomat
Sally Montour Ainse Navigated Lakes Erie and Michigan to Trade
Sally Hance Montour Maxwell Ainse, an Oneida Indian woman from Pennsylvania, became a famous fur trader, store keeper, land owner and diplomat before the United States turned 50 years old. She was born on the Susquehanna River in 1728 before America was a country. She died in 1823 when she was 95 years old, well before the Constitution Act of 1867 transformed Canada into a Dominion
Read more at Suite101: "Oneida Sally" - Trader, Land Owner, Diplomat: Sally Montour Ainse Navigated Lakes Erie and Michigan to Trade http://www.suite101.com/content/oneida-sally---trader-land-owner-diplomat-a196114#ixzz19XsjPpjr
THERE IS SO MUCH MORE TO LEARN ABOUT THIS TRUE ENTREPRENEUR AND HER SUCCESSES, BUT HAVING IT ALL TAKEN AWAY FROM HER WITH THE MCKAY'S PURCHASE, IN ANOTHER ARTICLE YOU CAN LEARN SO MUCH MORE, "Only a few people know of her existence but in the late 1700s, a woman named Sally Ainse carved out a life on the North American frontier. She was a furtrader, a business woman, and a major landowner in what is now southwestern Ontario, and she had links to major figures of her day from George Washington, to John Graves Simcoe and Joseph Brant."
"Oneida Sally" - Trader, Land Owner, Diplomat
Sally Montour Ainse Navigated Lakes Erie and Michigan to Trade
Sally Hance Montour Maxwell Ainse, an Oneida Indian woman from Pennsylvania, became a famous fur trader, store keeper, land owner and diplomat before the United States turned 50 years old. She was born on the Susquehanna River in 1728 before America was a country. She died in 1823 when she was 95 years old, well before the Constitution Act of 1867 transformed Canada into a Dominion
Read more at Suite101: "Oneida Sally" - Trader, Land Owner, Diplomat: Sally Montour Ainse Navigated Lakes Erie and Michigan to Trade http://www.suite101.com/content/oneida-sally---trader-land-owner-diplomat-a196114#ixzz19XsjPpjr
THERE IS SO MUCH MORE TO LEARN ABOUT THIS TRUE ENTREPRENEUR AND HER SUCCESSES, BUT HAVING IT ALL TAKEN AWAY FROM HER WITH THE MCKAY'S PURCHASE, IN ANOTHER ARTICLE YOU CAN LEARN SO MUCH MORE, "Only a few people know of her existence but in the late 1700s, a woman named Sally Ainse carved out a life on the North American frontier. She was a furtrader, a business woman, and a major landowner in what is now southwestern Ontario, and she had links to major figures of her day from George Washington, to John Graves Simcoe and Joseph Brant."