Christie, William Joseph

William Joseph Christie was an HBC officer, first near Hudson's Bay, then later (1858) at Fort Edmonton. While at Edmonton he pressed for the making of a Treaty with the Indians, and after resigning from the HBC in 1873 he was made a commissioner for Treaties Four and Six. The Native peoples at Treaty Six resented his connections to the HBC, and after securing some adhesions and reporting on settlement on reserves he retired.

Sources: Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume XII, pp. 194.