Fraser River

Fraser River (49˚07'00" 123˚11'00" Flows NW from the Rocky Mtns, then S and W to the Str of Georgia). Named in 1813 by David Thompson, fellow officer and fur trader with the NWC, after Simon Fraser (1776–1862), superintendent of the district of New Caledonia. Fraser was born in Vermont, joined the NWC in 1792 and was made a partner a decade later. Given the task of developing trade W of the Rocky Mtns, he established Ft McLeod, the first permanent European settlement in what is now BC, in...

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