death_date death_place birth_place birth_date known_for image article_title name
14 april 1787 montreal , quebec halifax , west yorkshire 1742 leading beaver club . montreal fur trader and founding member of the benjamin frobisher.jpg benjamin frobisher
 benjamin frobisher
benjamin frobisher

benjamin frobisher -lrb- 1742 -- april 14 , 1787 -rrb- was born in england , the son of joseph frobisher and rachel hargrave and immigrated to canada about 1763 .
two brothers also immigrated to canada and all three were involved with the fur trade and its expansion into the northwest .
in 1770 , the three brothers , partnered with richard dobie , had a successful fur trading expedition which went up the saskatchewan river well past fort bourbon situated near the mouth of that river .
more successful expeditions followed and in 1779 the frobishers set up a company that owned two of the sixteen shares in the north west company established that year .
they were among the shareholders who got their fur trade goods from the london merchant john strettell .
at the time of benjamin 's death , the northwest was beginning to be the most important region in the fur trade and a time when the north west company was on the point of having almost total control of the area 's trade .
he was one of the seventeen original founding members of the beaver club .
