![]() ![]() No Country perhaps in the world furnishes better prospects for young men with Moderate Views than the one we are now in.” In 1794, armed with his employer’s recommendations, Clark travelled to Michilimackinac (Mackinac Island, Mich.) “to look around,” but found the northwest fur trade, by that time in decline, not to his liking. The Queenston magnate was impressed with his young charge, reporting to Clark’s father in 1792: “I have found him possessed of Attention & Assiduity in my Business, & I’m convinced that he has Abilities & Morals to Conduct with success his own, as soon as he shall find it convenient to embark on his own Account. Thomas Clark arrived in Upper Canada in 1791 to work for his cousin Robert Hamilton*. 30 March 1809 Mary Margaret Kerr, daughter of Robert Kerr they had no children d. 6 Oct. 1835 in Niagara Falls, Upper Canada. ![]() ![]() in Scotland, probably in Dumfriesshire, son of Samuel Clark m. CLARK (Clarke), THOMAS, businessman, militia officer, jp, politician, and office holder b. ![]()
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