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3 unusual facts about Adam Grant Horne


Adam Grant Horne

Adam Grant Horne (1829 – August 10, 1901) was a Hudson's Bay Company employee at the Colony of Vancouver Island, a municipal politician and a businessman.

After operating a business on his own account in Nanaimo, he took further employment with the HBC first at its Fort Simpson post and then took charge of its Comox operation from 1865 to 1878 when the post there was closed as well.

In 1856 Horne led what is thought to have been the first crossing of mid-Vancouver Island by a European.



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