Josiah Bleakley ( – 22 January 1822) was a Canadian fur trader from

Lower Canada The Province of Lower Canada (french: province du Bas-Canada) was a British colony on the lower Saint Lawrence River and the shores of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence (1791–1841). It covered the southern portion of the current Province of Quebec an ...

. Bleakley was an important member of the fur trade industry during his period of activity which was definitely in place by 1774. He was a contemporary of

James McGill James McGill (October 6, 1744 – December 19, 1813) was a Scottish Canadian businessman and philanthropist best known for being the founder of McGill University, Montreal. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada for Montreal ...

although he never achieved that type of stature in the trading community.

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* 1750s births 1822 deaths Canadian fur traders {{Canada-business-bio-stub