Social Studies 10
  • Geography
    • Physiographic Regions
    • Industry>
      • Primary Industry
      • Secondary Industry
      • Tertiary Industry
      • Basic and Non-Basic Industry
      • The 7 Types of Services
      • The 7 Location Factors for manufacturing
      • Canada's Industrial Heartland
    • Climate>
      • Maritime Climate
      • Continental Climate
      • Relief And Elevation
      • Latitude and Temperature
      • Air Pressure and Air Masses
      • Moderating Effect
      • Prevailing Winds
      • Jet Streams
      • Precipitation
      • Climate Zones in Canada
  • Fur Trade, Immigration, Exploration
    • Hudson Bay Company
    • The Northwest Company
    • James Cook
    • George Vancouver
    • Alexander Mackenzie
    • Simon Fraser
    • David Thompson
    • Immigration 1830's
    • Multiculturalism
  • Reform and Rebellion
    • Nationalism in the Canadas
    • The Chateau Clique
    • The Family Compact
    • Rebellions of 1837 in Upper and Lower Canada
    • The Durham Report
    • The 1840 Act of Union
    • Victorian Fashion and Décor>
      • Leisure
      • Travel
    • Rise of Newpapers
  • Confederation
    • Advantages to Confederation
    • Resistance to Confederation
    • John A. Macdonald
    • George-Etienne Cartier
    • George Brown
    • The Charlottetown Conference
    • The Quebec Conference
    • The Fenian Raids
    • The British North America Act (Canada's Constitution)
  • Opening In The West
    • The Merger of the HBC and NWC
    • George Simpson
    • The Red River Settlement
    • The Red River Rebellion
    • The Metis Flee Westward
    • The Buffalo Hunt
    • The Northwest Mounted Police
    • Fort Whoop-Up
    • Gabriel Dumont
    • Native Treaties
    • Building of the Canadian Pacific Railway
    • The Pacific Scandal
    • Louis Riel Returns to Canada
    • The Northwest Rebellion 1885
  • British Columbia
    • The Oregon Territory
    • The Colony of Vancouver Island
    • Fort Victoria
    • James Douglas
    • The Cariboo Gold Rush
    • Barkerville
    • The Caribou Road
    • The Colony of BC and Joining Confederation
    • The Railway Survey and the Terminus Debate
    • The Rise of Vancouver
    • The Chinese in B.C.
  • Canada Up To World War 1
    • Alberta And Saskatchewan Join Confederation
    • Wilfred Laurier
    • The Boer War
    • The Naval Issue
    • French - English Divide
    • Reciprocity
    • The Alaskan Boundary Dispute
    • Farmsteading and immigration
    • Railway Boom
    • Rise of Unions
    • Women’s suffrage and Reform
    • Nellie McClung
    • Native Rights
    • Arrival of the Car and Airplane
    • Communications advances
    • Arts and Leisure 1900-1914

Simon Fraser

Key Points

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- Became a partner in the NWC in 1801
- Built Fort Mcleod, Fort St. James, Fort Fraser and Fort George (Prince George)
- Was the first to sail the Fraser river through the Fraser Canyon
- Established the canyon as Hells Gate
- David Thompson named the Fraser river in honour of Simon Fraser

- Simon Fraser named the Thompson River in honour of David Thompson

Summary

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  Simon Fraser (1776–18 August 1862) was a fur trader and explorer who charted most of British Columbia.  Fraser worked for the  North West Company in 1805 he was put in charge of the company's operations west of the Rocky Mountains. He built trading posts in Fort St. James, Fort Fraser, and Fort George (Prince George). In 1808 he explored the Fraser River, whcih was named in Honour of him by David Thompson. Fraser was put through the obstacles of the Fraser Canyons, which he named Hells Gate due to it's extremities. Simon Fraser afterwards name the Thompson river after his fellow Nor'wester David Thompson.


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