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Joseph William McKay was an enterprising and active employee of the Hudson’s Bay Company. He was also a government official. The 1860s was a transition period for Kamloops and area. The Hudson’s Bay Company fur trade was giving way to a mercantile economy supplying miners, ranchers, and entrepreneurs. The Fraser River and Thompson River Gold Rush was still in force and the Cariboo Gold Rush was about to unfold.