Douglas Brown

## Biography

**Douglas** **Brown** was a Montreal based businessman, hailing from Scotland, who was the owner of the Low River Company, a minor fur trading business run with his brothers Malcolm and Cedric , before having become part owner of *Carruthers and Co.* after being "married" to Elizabeth Carruthers, the former heiress of her husband's estate and business.

Hoping to rake in fortunes and an opportunity in North America, Douglas, along with his brothers Malcolm and Cedric, would come to Montreal to participate in the fur trade industry, with the help of some investors, and would come to establish the *Low River Company*, a modest business that would specializing in some number of pelts. But as time went on, the Brown Brothers' would began to run the company aground; the company was beginning to be wracked with debts to such enormous levels that Douglas and his brothers were at danger of being arrested and put into debtors' prison. Desperate, the brothers hoped to return back to their native Scotland but Douglas insisted in trying one more scheme in an effort to save both his brothers and the company.

### Season 1

Douglas planned to make a comeback by trading with the Lake Walker tribe in Hudson bay and then do business with Samuel Grant and his enterprises. Douglas' plan ends in disaster, as his brother Cedric would kidnap the Lake Walkers' leader's grandson, in an effort to extort the tribes to listen to the Brown Brothers, and would himself get killed but not without angering the tribe after the grandson's death by the hands of the Hudson Bay Company's (HBC) thugs.

Even more desperate, Douglas attempts to meet with Samuel Grant but only the condition of also inviting in his arch-rival Peter Carruthers to a business meeting involving all three gentlemen to which also ends fruitlessly; Peter would anger Grant after cursing both him and Douglas, to which an angry Grant orders his partner Cobbs Pond to murder Peter at the Brown Brothers' company offices in front of Douglas. After being warned by Grant of the consequences, Douglas was then required to travel to the Carruther widow Elizabeth, and have her meet with Grant for a potential acquisition of her husband's estate. Despite doing so, Elizabeth refused to Grant's request and would eventually have Grant imprison the remaining Brown Brothers into a debtor's prison, to which both Douglas and Malcolm would feud over.
Some time later, Malcolm would be sprung out but leaving Douglas behind as Elizabeth had paid the bail to "marry" one of the Brown Brothers in an effort to gain more power and legitmacy to her husband's business. But after Malcolm had vanished to Fort James in an attempt to kill Jonathan Chesterfield, the murderer of Cedric Brown, Elizabeth would then spring out Douglas in order to replace Malcolm. Despite being nothing but a figurehead who had no say in any of the Carruthers' operations, Douglas appeared to take his newly found job much more seriously and would even have some sort of loyalty to Elizabeth, especially after admitting to an act of sabotage perpetrated by Grant and offering to correct the mistakes while also winning the business of the Marquis de Beaumont. Douglas would even start to periodically meet with Elizabeth to ensure she was doing well as an effort to get closer to her, to which would escalate to the two copulating in Elizabeth's private chambers.
However, the relationship of Elizabeth and Douglas would cut short when it was revealed, unbeknowst to Douglas, that Grant had murdered Elizabeth with his own hands. Upon seeing Elizabeth's body, Douglas had began to feel remorse and true sadness for his wife and had started to turn to drinking heavily.
In a will, Elizabeth declared her house aide Josephette DaCosta head of operations, Douglas the "owner" of the company, and the estate being run by the Carruthers' trust. But this arrangement had proved to be a mistake, for Douglas had become so heavily alcoholic that he could not make the proper decisions to run company, especially when the HBC began to crackdown on all independent traders that had endangered both *Carruthers and Co.* and Samuel Grant's business; Grant had even offered a truce and a partnership with the grieving Brown brother but Douglas had angrily told him to never bother him again, a similar treatment he would give to Michael Smyth who had attempted to unify all companies together. Because of these decisions being so dangerous, DaCosta had Malcolm run Douglas' work to do what was best for the company.

While Malcolm would takeover Douglas' duties in running the company, Douglas would be visited by Clenna Dolan in an effort to console him so that he may be able to reason and do business with Grant, an idea she thought of to impress Grant and Cobbs. But as Clenna kept revisiting Douglas, she began to be intimate with him and the two had developed a sort of romantic relationship to which would end with them copulating in Grant's home during his absence. But the relationship would turn sour when Clenna reveals that she had a hand in helping Grant hiding his involvement with Elizabeth's death by discarding her body in the alleyway, which had greatly angered Douglas. Clenna would offer to help and to testify against Grant for the murder, but Grant would overhear the plan upon his return and would threaten Douglas to leave so he may handle Clenna alone. Douglas, realizing the danger Clenna was in, responds back by threatening Grant who would become furious to the point the two would end up in a physical fight in Grant's chambers. After overpowering Douglas, Grant would repeatedly stomp the Brown brother in the head before being bludgeoned to death by Clenna behind him. Clenna would then feebly attempt to revive Douglas, who was lifeless and was profusely bleeding from his injuries.