Adventures in the West: Henry Halpin, Fur Trader and Indian Agent

This is the story of Irish-born Henry Ross Halpin, who by the age of 16 began a long association with the fur trade and Canada’s native peoples, was twice employed by the Hudson’s Bay Company, and became an Indian agent (1885-1901). Halpin’s work took him from Fort Garry, Manitoba, to Fort York on the shores of the Hudson Bay, and across the Prairies to British Columbia.