Simon Fraser (explorer)
Simon Fraser (
1776-
1862) was a fur trader and an explorer who charted much of what is now the
Canadian province of
British Columbia. He was born in
Bennington, Vermont U.S.A, and moved to Canada as a child with his family. Fraser became a fur trader for the for the
Montreal-based
North West Company and by
1805 had been put in charge of all the company's operations west of the
Rocky Mountains. Fraser was responsible for building that area's first trading posts, and in
1808 Fraser explored the river which now bears his name, the
Fraser River.
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