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George Simpson was born at Dingwall, Scotland. He was the illegitimate son of George Simpson, Writer to the Signet and was raised by two aunts and his paternal grandmother Isobel Simpson.
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George Simpson was born at Dingwall, Scotland. He was the illegitimate son of George Simpson, Writer to the Signet and was raised by two aunts and his paternal grandmother Isobel Simpson.
After serving as a clerk in a London firm, he joined the Hudson's Bay Company in 1820 and took over the management of the Company's affairs in the Athabaska region. When the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company were merged in 1821, he became governor of the Northern Department, responsible for the administration of the company's affairs in the Northwest and on the Pacific slope. In 1826, he became governor of the Southern Department, and in 1839 governor-inchief of Rupert's Land. He presided over the Council of the Northern Department of Rupert's Land, heading the first government in British territory west of the Great Lakes. As general superintendent for the company in North America, he was outstanding for careful management, supervision over the employees, and the extension of the fur trade in the Pacific slope area. Simpson traveled constantly and made many trips through the Canadian West. In 1841-1842 he crossed the continent and traveled around the world. In 1857, when the Hudson's Bay Company wished to renew its license for exclusive trade with the native Americans, he appeared before the Select Committee of the British House of Commons to defend its policies and activities. At the same time Simpson discontinued the possibility of opening the Northwest to settlement and to farming. He died at Lachine, Lower Canada (now Quebec), on September 7, 1860.
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He married his first cousin, Francis Ramsay Simpson on February 1830. Simpson sired at least eleven children by at least seven women, only one of whom was his wife.