 When the Northwest fur trade, into the present western Canada, was re-established in the late 1760s and after, John Strettell provided the goods for some of the most important traders.Among his Canadian customers were the partnership of Isaac Todd and James McGill, and that of Benjamin Frobisher and Joseph Frobisher.These two partnerships, forming the earliest version of the North West Company, were the most energetic in the Northwest fur trade in the years just before the American Revolution.