Samuel Grant (Organization)

**Samuel Grant's Organization** (official name undisclosed; simply referred to "Samuel Grant" by others) is one of Montreal's most powerful fur trading businesses run by American businessman, Samuel Grant. Since its establishment, it has attempted to run a monopoly on the fur trade in North America and has led to conflicts, especially with that of Elizabeth Carruthers, who would ascend to power to her husband's company.

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After leaving his native Kentucky in the United States, Grant had found himself in Montreal to conduct business and particularly found it to his liking. It was here that Grant would establish his business and would become one of the major players in the fur industry in North America.

But while Grant's main business is in furs, it is clear that his organization has some dark dealings with some criminal elements, as evidenced by several murders and acts of sabotage credited to some thugs in his payroll and his enforcer Cobbs Pond, who also acts as his second-in-command at times of his absence. Furthermore, it is implied that Grant himself has many connections with the authorities of Montreal, as it was evidenced that he was able to spring his partner Cobbs when the situation called for bribery to the magistrates and when he had the Brown Brothers Malcolm and Douglas arrested for debt.

Grant's mission to create a monopoly in Montreal had been thwarted numerous times with thanks to Elizabeth Carruthers, who had step-for-step outmatched Grant in his attempt to woo the Marquis de Beaumont, a French investor who had come to do business, and after Grant had failed to acquire both the *Low River Company*and *Carruthers and Co.*

Grant's situation would turn even worse when after he had murdered Elizabeth Carruthers and had sent Grant to acquire stolen HBC pelts from Fort James, the HBC would send its team of investigators from London to confiscate every inventory possible from every trader, especially that of Grant's after word had received he had bought stolen pelts. This would put the business in some hot water but only after Michael Smyth had come to offer a partnership with the Lake Walker Tribe and with every possible independent trader in the region; while Grant was not there to agree to the terms, his partner Cobbs had accepted in his stead and would give the proper investment capital to proceed. But after Smyth's actions had arroused suspicion with Cobbs, especially after Smyth had visited the Browns and the Carruthers' household, Cobbs tracked down Smyth to discover that he had struck another deal with his and Grant's enemy, the Brown Brothers, or Malcolm Brown. Smyth convinces both Malcolm and Cobbs to cooperate to eliminate HBC from the region, to which both parties reluctantly agree to do so. But while Cobbs had managed to secure a period of peace with Grant's interests and their archnemisis *Carruthers and Co.*, Grant himself would be in the center of a heated argument with Douglas Brown, to which his representative/ward Clenna Dolan would offer to testify against Grant after the murder of Elizabeth Carruthers. Grant would perish after Clenna had bludgeoned him the same way he had killed Elizabeth, marking the end of Grant's rule of his business.