biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1776–1862)
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| biography:
| Fur trader, born in Bennington, Vermont, USA. He moved to Canada in 1784. He worked as a clerk in the North-West Co, was promoted to partner in 1801, and was sent in 1805 to establish the first trading posts in the Rocky Mountains. Following Mackenzie's route, he opened up a vast area which he called New Caledonia between the plains and the Pacific, and in 1808 followed the Fraser R, named after him, to its mouth. He headed the Red River Department of the North-West Co during conflict with settlers of the rival Hudson's Bay Co, before his retirement in 1818. Simon Fraser University, in British Columbia, is named after him. |
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