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Jensen, Rudolph

Also Known As: Rudolph Johnson

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Biography

He was qualified as a Marine Engineer.

He came to the Mackenzie Delta c1910 and worked there as an independent trapper.

He worked as Engineer with Hugh Clarke in the schooner El Sueno at the HBC Kent Peninsula Post in 1920.

They opened up the Kent Peninsula Post for the HBC in 1920.

They traded from the schooner until they were able to erect buildings.

In 1932 he was still working for the HBC in the Arctic.

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