Ranald MacDonald
Hudson's Bay Company
Pioneers
Canada, biography
Americans
Frontier and pioneer life
Adventure and adventurers
Description and travel
Biography
History
Ranald MacDonald, a solitary venturer, entered secretive Japan in 1848, risking certain imprisonment, if not death, in the closed kingdom. Born at Astoria on the banks of the Columbia River, MacDonald (1824-94) was the son of a high-ranking Chinook woman and a Hudson's Bay Company official. He becam…
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