Elizabeth Carruthers

## Biography

**Elizabeth Carruthers** was the wife of Peter Carruthers, who was the owner of Carruthers and Co., a fur trade business based in Montreal that rivals that of Samuel Grant's company. Since the demise of her husband, Elizabeth had ascended to becoming owner and sole proprietor of Carruthers and Co., which she ran with such efficiency that matched the power of Grant's with the help of her servant Josephette DaCosta.

### Season 1

After the death of her husband Peter, whom she harbors no actual feelings of love for, Samuel Grant had hoped to have Douglas Brown attempt to arrange a meeting with Elizabeth and him, expecting the possibility of buying out her husband's business. Grant's vying for *Carruthers and Co.*was proven to be a failure, as he miscalculated Elizabeth's personality, who he expected her to be nothing but a grieving widow only to discover that she had pure ambition to bring *Carruthers and Co.* the sole leader of the fur trade. But to secure her future in an industry that is otherwise "not for women", as Grant had stated, she would spring out Malcolm Brown from debtor's prison, who she would "marry" for the purpose of being nothing but a figurehead in *Carruthers and Co.,*while also granting Elizabeth majority ownership of the Browns' Low River Company.

Mercurial and shrewd, Elizabeth's characters matched step for step with that of Grant's, as she too made use of threats and even sabotage to uproot Grant's influence in Montreal, especially when French investor Marquis de Beaumont had arrived in Montreal for business, to which both *Carruthers and Co.* and Samuel Grant had warred for.

Although her initial perspectives of the Brown Brothers was low, especially after Malcolm's disappearance to Fort James and having to remarry Douglas, it was evident that her attitudes to the Browns, Douglas especially, was shifting; after the Browns had sabotaged the tanning vats of *Carruthers and Co.,*Douglas had openly admitted to wrongdoing and even went to great lengths to correct his and Malcolm's plot by having Grant's meeting with Marquis de Beaumont sabotaged by proving his complicity in the incident. After winning the Marquis' interest with *Carruthers and Co.,* Elizabeth would then develop a type of romantic feeling for Douglas, to which the two would copulate in Elizabeth's private chambers.

In her final offensive against Samuel Grant, she would have Grant's bodyguard Cobbs Pond arrested for the murder of Bertrand Bernard. Taunting Grant on how she managed to foil his inevitable plot to bribe the magistrate by going to several and how she had Cobb arrested, Grant would become greatly incensed to the point in which his anger boils to murderous hatred, especially after Elizabeth had assaulted and injured him with a glass bottle. Grant would murder Elizabeth by bludgeoning her to death with a statue, a scene which his "ward" Clenna Dolan would arrive to and insist on discarding her body in the alleyway to avoid suspicions. After Elizabeth's body was discovered by the authorities and by Douglas, the latter would become inconsolable, proving that he had truly seen Elizabeth as a lover and not a partner.