Simon Fraser (1776-18 August 1862) was a fur trader and an explorer who charted much of what is now the Canadian province of British Columbia. Fraser was employed by 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. He was responsible for building that area's first trading posts, and in 1808 he explored what is now known as the Fraser River, which bears his name. Wikipedia
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FRASER , SIMON , fur-trader and explorer; b. at
Mapletown (near Bennington, Vt) in 1776; d. on his farm near StAndrews,
Stormont County, Canada West, 18Aug.1862. www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=38559
Simon Fraser could be called the founding father of British Columbia because he built the first colonial trading posts west of the Rockies, enabling the British Crown to eventually claim the land. www.discovervancouver.com/GVB/simonsfr.asp
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