Dubeau, (also: Dibeau) Louis

Dubeau was born in Lower Canada, around 1822. He was engaged by the Hudson's Bay Company at Montreal in 1841 and worked as a middleman at Fort Victoria from 1846 to 1850. During 1846/47 Finlayson recorded him as "Dibeau" before switching to "Dubeau" in 1848. Dubeau was married along with five other HBC servants to unnamed women in a group ceremony on July 19, 1848. Two days later he was involved in an altercation with Finlayson, who described him, along with Bates and Beauchamp, as belonging to a group of men "who make a boast of being unruly & insolent". He was not mentioned again in the Journal until February 9, 1850 when he announced his intention to leave the service. Dubeau disappeared from the records of the HBC until 1865/66 when he was employed at Fort Langley.

Sources:

• Evans, Mike. "Louis Dubeau." BC Metis Mapping Project. http://ubc.bcmetis.ca/hbc_bio_profile.php?id=ODUw.
• Abstract of Servants' Accounts (Fort Vancouver – Columbia District). B./223/g/7. Hudson's Bay Company Archives.
• Watson, Bruce McIntyre. Lives Lived West of the Divide. Kelowna: Centre for Social, Spatial, and Economic Justice, University of British Columbia, 2010.