Little Emperor

Fur Trade, Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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Sir George Simpson (d. 1860), Governor of the Hudson's Bay Co. from 1826 to 1860.

Quotations

1860

"The little Emperor's light has gone out," wrote chief Trader Dugald MacTavish, "Just after he basked in a final blaze of glory."

1939

. . . his elder brother . . . may very well have driven the "Little Emperor" in his dog carriole.