(9 Sept. 1783-13 Nov. 1858), fur trader. Born Carleton Island in Lake Ontario near Kingston. Parents: Rev. John Bethune and his wife Veronica (Véronique) Waddens. Angus Bethune spent his childhood in GC where his family settled in 1787, then was a fur trader with the NWC (partner NWC 1814) and HBC, and twice visited China on behalf of the NWC. He married Louisa McKenzie, who was part Indian and whose father the Hon. Roderick McKenzie was the seigneur of Terrebonne and a cousin of Sir Alexander Mackenzie. Angus Bethune spent last his years in Toronto, and died there. Probably he had little connection with GC after his years of childhood but one may speculate that he sometimes visited the Nor’Westers settled in GC and Stormont. He was the ancestor of the much celebrated Dr Norman Bethune (Dr Henry Norman Bethune, d. 1939) of China.

Life in Dictionary of Canadian Biography VIII, Wallace and MDict * Hilary Russell, “The Chinese Voyages of Angus Bethune,” The Beaver (Spring l977) * Hilary Russell, “Angus Bethune,” Old Trails and New Directions (1980) * Mary Larratt Smith, Prologue to Norman: the Canadian Bethunes (1976) 65 (wife) &c. * life of his son Dr Norman Bethune (d. 1892) Dictionary of Canadian Biography XII * life in Hurtig and elsewhere of descendant Dr Norman Bethune (d. 1939), of China, who appears also in a recent novel, Dennis Bock, The Communist’s Daughter (2007)