Descendants of Duncan and Mary BELL
 Second Generation 
2. Duncan BELL (Duncan1) was born about 1792 in , , Argyllshire, Scotland2 and died in 1848, aged about 56.
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• He worked as an agricultural labourer and lived at Ardelanish in 1841 in , Kilfinichen and Kilvickeon Parish, Argyll, Scotland.
Duncan married Flory McLEAN on January 19, 1819 in , Kilfinichen and Kilvickeon Parish, Argyll, Scotland.
Children from this marriage were:
+ 6 i. Dugald BELL was born on November 27, 1819 in , Kilfinichen and Kilvickeon Parish, Argyll, Scotland,5 died on November 24, 1891 in Saugeen Twp, Bruce Co, Ontario, Canada, aged 71, and was buried in Sanctuary Park Port Elgin, Bruce Co, Ontario, Canada.
7 ii. John BELL was born on December 29, 1821 in , Kilfinichen and Kilvickeon Parish, Argyll, Scotland.5
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• John resided at Ardelanish in , Kilfinichen and Kilvickeon Parish, Argyll, Scotland in 1841.
• He resided in Glenelg Twp, Grey Co, Ontario, Canada in 1851 .
8 iii. Archibald BELL was born on June 13, 1824 in , Kilfinichen and Kilvickeon Parish, Argyll, Scotland.5
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• Archibald resided in Glenelg Twp, Grey Co, Ontario, Canada in 1851 .
+ 9 iv. John BELL was born on March 7, 1826 in , Kilfinichen and Kilvickeon Parish, Argyll, Scotland5,6 and died on November 16, 1915 in Kincardine, Bruce Co, Ontario, Canada,6 aged 89.
+ 10 v. Christina "Christy" BELL was born on October 14, 1827 in , Kilfinichen and Kilvickeon Parish, Argyll, Scotland,5 was christened Chrstina ", died on March 29, 1896 in Saugeen Twp, Bruce Co, Ontario, Canada, aged 68, and was buried in Sanctuary Park Port Elgin, Bruce Co, Ontario, Canada.
+ 11 vi. Neil BELL was born on November 18, 1829 in , Kilfinichen and Kilvickeon Parish, Argyll, Scotland7,8 and died on April 13, 1901 in Saugeen Twp, Bruce Co, Ontario, Canada,9 aged 71.
+ 12 vii. Malcolm BELL was born in 1832 in , Kilfinichen and Kilvickeon Parish, Argyll, Scotland and died on June 24, 1886 in Saugeen Twp, Bruce Co, Ontario, Canada, aged 54.
13 viii. Susan BELL was born on September 13, 1835 in , Kilfinichen and Kilvickeon Parish, Argyll, Scotland.5
14 ix. Archibald BELL was born in 1838 in , Kilfinichen and Kilvickeon Parish, Argyll, Scotland.
3. Christina "Christy" BELL (Duncan1) was born about 1795 in Ardalanish, Isle of Mull, Argyll, Scotland, died on May 22, 1871 in Paisley, Bruce Co, Ontario, Canada, aged about 76, and was buried in Sanctuary Park Port Elgin, Bruce Co, Ontario, Canada. She was usually called Christy.
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• Christy resided at Ardchiavaig in Kilfinichen Parish, Isle of Mull, Argyllshire, Scotland in 1841.
• She worked as a Farmer of 6 Acres Emp 2 Labourers at Ardturr (Ardtun) Lee in 1851 in Kilfinichen Parish, Isle of Mull, Argyllshire, Scotland.
• She resided at the home of her son Malcolm in Paisley, Bruce Co, Ontario, Canada in 1871.
Christy married John MacMILLAN on September 2, 1836 in Kilfinichen-Kilvickeon, Isle of Mull, Argyll, Scotland.10 John was born in 1793 in , , Argyllshire, Scotland and died before 1851 in Ardchiavaig, Kilfinichen Parish, Argyll, Scotland.
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• He worked as an agricultural labourer and lived at Ardchiavaig in 1841 in Kilfinichen Parish, Isle of Mull, Argyllshire, Scotland.
The child from this marriage was:
+ 15 i. Malcolm "Mac" McMILLAN was born on November 23, 1836 in Kilfinichen Parish, Isle of Mull, Argyllshire, Scotland,11 died in 1890 in Paisley, Bruce Co, Ontario, Canada,12 aged 54, and was buried in Paisley Cemetery, Bruce Co, Ontario, Canada.
4. John BELL H.B.Co. (Duncan1) was born on January 19, 1799 in Ardalanish, Isle of Mull, Argyll, Scotland,3,4 died on June 24, 1868 in Saugeen Twp, Bruce Co, Ontario, Canada, aged 69, and was buried in Sanctuary Park Port Elgin, Bruce Co, Ontario, Canada.
John Bell (c. 1799 \endash 24 June 1868) was born Isle of Mull, Scotland and emigrated to Canada where he worked for the Hudson's Bay Company as a fur trader and colonizer. He was one of the colonizers of the Yukon River. Bell was appreciated by the company for his "professionalism, flexibility and dedication to the interests of the fur trade" as well as his abilities as a "manager of men".
In 1839, he was sent to colonize the land west of the Mackenzie River. With the assistance of Alexander Kennedy Isbister, he established Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories on the Peel River not far from the Mackenzie, and colonized the Peel into what is now the Yukon Territory.
In 1845, Bell crossed the mountains into the Yukon River watershed, and went down the Rat River to its confluence with the Porcupine River. The Rat River has been renamed the Bell River in his honour. After managing the fur trade at Fort McPherson until 1845, he returned to the Bell River, and Followed the Porcupine to its juncture with the Yukon River, the eventual site of Fort Yukon. He set the stage for the Yukon trade which proved extremely lucrative for the Hudson's Bay Company and for Canada's claim over what is now the Yukon Territory.
He had some involvement in organizing John Rae's 1848\endash 1849 expedition to search for Sir John Franklin, and continued working in the Mackenzie District for the Hudson's Bay Company until 1860. Although his exploits as an explorer are most often publicized, Bell preferred to work as a manager and organizer. He accepted the exploring jobs as required but did so "without the enthusiasm and sense of destiny that inspired other HBC explorers. He was, in fact, a fur trader rather than an explorer, both in talent and temperament."
Bell completed his career in Quebec, retiring from the company in 1860. He then moved to Bruce County, Ontario and farmed on Con 2, Lot 30, Saugeen Township 5 km west of Paisley where he lived until his death in 1868.
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John married Nancy Anne DEASE, daughter of Peter Warren DEASE and Elisabeth CHOUINARD, in 1824 in Peel River Post, , North West Territories, Canada. Nancy was born in May 1813 in Peel River Post, , North West Territories, Canada and died on September 20, 1888 in Fort Simpson, , Northwest Territories, Canada, aged 75.
Obituary for Nancy DEASE;s father, Peter Warren Dease (1788-1863) - Fur trader, explorer.
Born at Mackinac (now Michigan), he joined the XY Company in 1801 and stayed on in the North West Company after their amalgamation in 1804. He served in the Athabasca Department until 1824, when he was seconded to Franklin's Arctic expeditions of 1824-27. In 1831 he took charge of the New Caledonia District, and in 1836 he was assigned to command the Hudson's Bay Company's Arctic exploratory expedition. His second-in-command was Thomas Simpson, who constantly complained that Dease was indolent. Nevertheless, the expedition filled in the gaps left by Franklin and others in the survey of the Northwest Passage. Dease married his fur-trade wife at Red River on 3 August 1840 and then retired to a farm near Montreal, where he lived contentedly until his death.
Children from this marriage were:
16 i. Christina BELL was born on November 7, 1829 in Fort Gratiot, St. Clair Co, Michigan, USA3 and died on November 13, 1888 in St. Andrews, Lisgar, Manitoba, Canada,3 aged 59.
Christina married Alexander Black McKENZIE about 1854 in Fort Laird, , Rupert's Land, Canada. Alexander was born on April 30, 1828 in Fort William, Thunder Bay Dist, Ontario, Canada3 and died on December 6, 1873 in Mapleton, , Manitoba, Canada,3 aged 45.
17 ii. Peter Warren Wentworth BELL was born on December 31, 1831 in Norway House, , Rupert's Land, Canada and died on August 15, 1901 in Juneau, Juneau, Alaska, USA, aged 69.
Peter Warren Wentworth Bell (1831-1901) Fur trader.
Among the forty-two unfortunate passengers who perished miserably when the ill-fated steamer Islander went to her doom early in the morning of 15 August 1901 near Juneau, Alaska, was Chief Factor Peter Warren Wentworth Bell of the Hudson's Bay Company, and for many years a corresponding member of the Historical Society, Winnipeg. Mr. Bell was on his return to Victoria, BC, in company with Dr. John Duncan, MD, of that city - another victim - from a special journey made by them to Dawson City and Stewart River, Yukon Territory. On this occasion they both travelled by Peterboro canoe 700 miles of the distance between Skagway and Dawson, and from there to the Stewart, 90 miles each way, on horseback.
Mr. Bell was the eldest son of the late Chief Trader John Bell, a native of Argyllshire, Scotland, who for many years held the charge of Fort Good Hope, Mackenzie River, North West Territory, and was born at Norway House, Rupert's Land on 21 December 1831. His maternal grandfather was Chief Factor P. W. Dease, of Dease and Simpson, the celebrated Hudson's Bay Arctic explorers. In due time, like many of his country-born contemporaries, he was sent to school to the old Red River Settlement, and there, like many of them, he acquired a sound practical business education, under the zealous and talented Academy teacher of that time, the late Rev. John McCallum. Like many of them also, Mr. Bell began life as an apprentice clerk in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company. He entered on his duties in the Spring of 1852, and finally, after a progressively successful career of forty-two years, through the various grades of Clerk, Chief Trader, Factor and Chief Factor, he retired from the service in the autumn of 1893.
With the exception of a summer trip on which he accompanied his old master and life-long friend, Chief Factor and Resident Governor, Donald Alexander Smith (now Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, G.C.M.G., and Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company in London, England), when he presided at the last Fur-Trade Council, which met at Norway House in July, 1870, and again during the open season of 1886, when he was associated with Chief Trader E. K. Beeston, in conducting an inspection of the Company's posts in Cumberland district, Mr. Bell's entire period of service was passed at Trade Stations, and in charge of districts situated in the Montreal Department. Many of his earlier years were spent at various points on the lower St. Lawrence River and on the coast of Labrador, mainly under the present Lord Strathcona. He was for several outfits later Manager at La Cloche on Lake Huron, and for twenty years at Michipicoten district, on Lake Superior. Then he was situated for a year or two at Chapleau, CPR, as "headquarters" of the latter, and afterwards held the charge of Esquimaux Bay district, until he retired in 1893. It is almost needless to state that Mr. Bell was a very interested, faithful, and valued servant of the Company - his successive promotions prove this. In 1866 he received the commission of a Chief Trader; in 1872 that of a Factor, and in 1879 he attained the highest position - that of a Chief Factor - conferred upon any officer in their employ.
The Hudson's Bay service has produced numerous men of good, and some of marked, ability; but it may be asserted with confidence that in point of physical courage, enterprise, and capability of endurance, the officers and servants of the Company have, as a class, the most distinguished record of any body of men in the British Empire, outside of the naval and military services. Those who personally knew and admired the genial, hearty, and energetic nature of the much lamented "Peter Bell," will readily agree that in the foregoing respects he was fully entitled to rank with the very foremost of his fur-trade predecessors and contemporaries. Even to the last his cheerful fortitude was amazing.
The following testimony from an old and intimate Eastern friend will surely confirm all this; he recently wrote:
Late in the Fall of 1854 Mr. Bell was removed from the post of Godbout to Mingan, and on his way there he was shipwrecked and narrowly escaped drowning, in fact, it was thought he had perished, and a man was therefore sent from Isle Jeremie to replace him. He had an outpost also besides the charge of Mingan. This was named Natashquan, situated a hundred miles to the Eastward. During the winter he visited that place, and when returning therefrom while travelling with one man and a sled of dogs over rather thin and insecure ice, he and his man went through, as did the sled - the man was drowned, but Mr. Bell got hold of one of the dog traces and the dogs hauled him out to solid ice. This accident occurred on La Cornez river, some thirty miles from Mingan. He was wet through, of course, and had no thing to strike a fire with. He saved but one of his snowshoes and lost both mitts and cap! He kept tramping round the small island on which he landed, all night, in order to keep himself from freezing to death, he was afraid to travel during the darkness for fear of again breaking through the ice. There was not a solitary settler or hunter at that time between both points. He, however, started out at dawn next day - the accident had happened after sunset - and never stopped until he reached Mingan. When he got there he found his toes frozen and lost several of them. In my opinion this was a remarkable feat of endurance - few men would have got so far after such a cold bath, and under such terribly trying circumstances.
In 1856, Mr. Bell was appointed to Esquimaux Bay district, Labrador, then in charge of Mr. Smith, now Lord Strathcona. He took passage in the brigantine Independent the wind being contrary, they anchored at a small place called Tug Harbor. In the night the wind changed suddenly to the Southeast, blowing a gale right on the shore - the vessel dragged her anchors and got stranded. Mr. Bell was washed ashore clinging to the mainboom, and narrowly escaped drowning. It is believed that two of the crew perished! When the gale ceased the vessel was high and dry on the beach. The cargo was landed and piled on shore, then a new danger threatened, a number of Newfoundland fishermen arrived and were going to take possession of the goods, as they, considered all wrecks as fair game for plunder. Mr. Bell and the crew barricaded themselves behind the goods, and held them off with their guns until assistance arrived from Rigolette, which is about sixty miles from Tug Harbor.
After his retirement Mr. Bell resided for several years in Kingston, Ontario, and latterly at Vancouver, B.C. A well known Winnipeg passenger on the Islander who narrowly escaped death by drowning, states that he held a long cheery conversation with Mr. Bell in the saloon cabin, some three or four hours before she struck on a sunken iceberg. This was the last he ever saw of him; but as the body has never been recovered, in all probability, from what we know of his fertility of resource, and the experience acquired in previous shipwreck disasters, Mr. Bell on finding that the steamer was doomed, lost his life in attempting to fetch from his cabin a large number of letters that had been entrusted to him at Dawson for posting in Vancouver, as well as certain papers, etc., of value belonging to Dr. Duncan and himself. On this supposition he might have failed to reach the deck ere she took the fatal plunge, and consequently went to the bottom in her, along with a number of other similarly entrapped unfortunates, including the sad case of Mr. Keating, of Victoria, and his two sons. It is difficult for anyone who knew him, to imagine that he would not otherwise have succeeded in saving his own life. Mr. Bell was one of the best known and most popular of the Company's officers. He was, also, like many of his inland colleagues in the service, a keen sportsman and an excellent shat, and he had no superior, and but few equals, as a traveller on snowshoes. The news of his untimely death was a terrible shock to his family, and it is still deeply regretted by his numerous friends and acquaintances throughout Canada, and by some also in the United States. In September, 1866, Mr. Bell was married in Belleville, Ontario, to the beautiful Miss Ellen S. Dupont, a sister of M Dupont, of Victoria, B. C. Three sons and two daughters were born to them. One of the daughters is married to Colonel Pemberton, of Victoria, and the other resides with her mother. Wentworth, the eldest son, is one of the Canadian soldiers in South Africa; the second, "Jack," a noted Rugby and hockey player, formerly of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, Winnipeg, is now on the staff of the branch of that bank in Dawson, Y.T., and the third son is employed in connection with the Southern Pacific Railway, in the State of California.
Printed in Transactions of the Historical and Scientific Society, Series 1, No. 62, 1902
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• Peter resided at the home of his grandfather Peter DEASE in Montréal, Île-de-Montréal, Québec, Canada in 1851.
Peter married Ellen Sarah DUPONT. Ellen was born on November 8, 1839 in Trois-Rivières, Montmorency, Québec, Canada and died on May 28, 1911 in Victoria, , British Columbia, Canada, aged 71.
18 iii. Jane BELL was born on December 6, 1833 in Red River Settlement, Rupert's Land, British North America and died in 1870 in Sweet Grass, Toole, Montana, United States, aged 37.
Jane married Lawrence CLARKE in 1855. Lawrence was born on June 26, 1832 in , County Cork, Munster, Ireland3 and died on October 5, 1890 in Prince Albert, , Saskatchewan, Canada,3 aged 58.
19 iv. William BELL was born on December 6, 1833 in , , Ontario, Canada.
20 v. Flora BELL was born on December 13, 1836 in Peel River Post, , North West Territories, Canada3 and died on August 27, 1920 in Prince Albert, , Saskatchewan, Canada,3 aged 83.
Flora married Joseph Alexander FINLAYSON on August 8, 1857 in English River, Kenora Dist, Ontario, Cnada. Joseph was born on April 30, 1830 in , , Northwest Territories, Canada3 and died on August 4, 1901 in Prince Albert, , Saskatchewan, Canada,3 aged 71.
21 vi. Archibald "Archie" BELL was born on June 11, 1838 in Prince Albert, , Saskatchewan, Canada,3 died on October 1, 1910 in Saugeen Twp, Bruce Co, Ontario, Canada,3 aged 72, and was buried in Sanctuary Park Port Elgin, Bruce Co, Ontario, Canada. He was usually called Archie.
22 vii. John BELL was born in 1840 in , , Northwest Territories, Canada,3 died on November 20, 1865 in Saugeen Twp, Bruce Co, Ontario, Canada,3 aged 25, and was buried in Sanctuary Park Port Elgin, Bruce Co, Ontario, Canada.
+ 23 viii. Ann BELL was born in 1843 in , , Northwest Territories, Canada3 and died on January 15, 1895 in Seattle, King, Washington, USA,3 aged 52.
24 ix. Susan BELL was born in 1846 in , , Northwest Territories, Canada3 and died on July 29, 1897 in Prince Albert, , Saskatchewan, Canada,3 aged 51.
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• Susan resided at the home of her father in Saugeen Twp, Bruce Co, Ontario, Canada in 1861.
5. Susannah BELL (Duncan1) was born in 1801 in , Isle of Mull, Argyll, Scotland and died on January 25, 1884 in Bentinck Twp, Grey Co, Ontario, Canada, aged 83.
Susannah married Archibald CAMERON on February 2, 1825 in Kilfinichen-Kilvickeon, Isle of Mull, Argyll, Scotland. Archibald was born in 1793 in , Isle of Mull, Argyll, Scotland and died on February 23, 1880 in Bentinck Twp, Grey Co, Ontario, Canada, aged 87.
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• He immigrated from Scotland about 1831 to , , Upper Canada.
• Archibald resided in Bentinck Twp, Grey Co, Ontario, Canada in 1851 .
• He worked as a farmer in 1871 in Bentinck Twp, Grey Co, Ontario, Canada.
Children from this marriage were:
25 i. Christy CAMERON was born on January 14, 1826 in Kilfinichen-Kilvickeon, Isle of Mull, Argyll, Scotland.
26 ii. John CAMERON was born on October 14, 1827 in Kilfinichen-Kilvickeon, Isle of Mull, Argyll, Scotland.
27 iii. Angus CAMERON was born on November 20, 1829 in Kilfinichen-Kilvickeon, Isle of Mull, Argyll, Scotland.
+ 28 iv. Margaret CAMERON was born in December 1831 in , , Argyllshire, Scotland, died on October 28, 1877 in Hawksville, Waterloo Co, Ontario, Canada,13 aged 45, and was buried in Hawksville, Waterloo Co, Ontario, Canada.
+ 29 v. Mary CAMERON was born on February 22, 1834 in Vaughan Twp, York Co, Ontario, Canada, died on August 19, 1901 in Sullivan Twp, Grey Co, Ontario, Canada, aged 67, and was buried in Latona Cemetry, Grey Co, Ontario.
+ 30 vi. Ann CAMERON was born on September 8, 1836 in Vaughan Twp, York Co, Ontario, Canada14 and died on October 24, 1921 in Glenelg Twp, Grey Co, Ontario, Canada, aged 85.
+ 31 vii. Malcolm Alexander CAMERON was born on July 15, 1838 in Vaughan Twp, York Co, Ontario, Canada and died on September 9, 1917 in , , North Dakota, USA, aged 79.
32 viii. John Jr. CAMERON was born in 1840 in Vaughan Twp, York Co, Ontario, Canada.
John married Mary McDOUGALL, daughter of John Allan McDOUGALL and Catherine CAMERON, on April 24, 1862 in Priceville, Grey Co, Ontario, Canada. Mary was born in 1842 in , , , Scotland.
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