Daniel Williams Harmon

[1] He took a 14-year-old Métis girl as a common-law (Marriage à la façon du pays) wife Elizabeth (Lizzette) Laval (ca.

1790 - February 14, 1862) on October 5, 1805, at South Branch House, Northwest Territory, British America.

Harmon joined the North West Company in 1800 and gradually moved westward, finally arriving in British Columbia in 1809.

The journal was heavily edited and rewritten for publication by the Reverend Daniel Haskel of Burlington, Vermont, and appeared with the title, "A journal of voyages and travels in the interior of North America, between the 47th and 58th degrees of north latitude, extending from Montreal nearly to the Pacific Ocean, a distance of about 5,000 miles, including an account of the principal occurrences, during a residence of nineteen years, in different parts of the country.

Harmon took a métis Native American Indian wife but refused the traders' practice of abandoning them and instead returned with her to Vermont and formal marriage.