In Riverside Park, there is a monument about Fort Kamloops, designated a historic site in 1924, in memory of the fur traders of the Pacific Fur Company, the North West Company and the Hudson’s Bay Company, who all established trading posts in the vicinity. Ken’s presentation will provide an intimate look at the ten men honoured on the plaque and how they figured in the history of the fur trade from 1811 to 1860. Ken’s extensive research reveals that the ten men are described through colourful and pejorative language by fellow fur traders and managers as well as through the “Character Book of George Simpson” (1832). Simpson was the Hudson’s Bay Company Governor-in-chief of Rupert’s Land. The plaque itself is subject to critique by whom it leaves out and its colonial, settler language in reference to the fur traders as “pioneers”, and for “securing the country for Great Britain.”