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Simon Fraser and the Voyageur Canoe, 1805
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Simon Fraser and the Voyageur Canoe following a rough, angry Fraser River to its mouth in 1805. Reference was supplied by the Vancouver Central Library. Simon Fraser joined the North West Company in 1792. At the age of twenty-six he was promoted to partnership and in 1805 was deputized to follow the mysterious Columbia River to its source. Sheer rock walls and dangerous rapids made his journey especially dangerous. Considerable distances were covered on foot. He writes that he and his men "had to travel where no human being should venture... there was a kind of beaten path used by the natives, and made passable by means of scaffolds, bridges and ladders so peculiarly constructed that it required no small degree of necessity, dexterity and courage in strangers... The Indians deserved our thanks for their able assistance through these alarming situations." Thirty-six days later and eight hundred kilometers from their starting point they finally arrived at Vancouver's Gulf of Georgia. The date was July 2, 1908 and they realized that they had successfully navigated, not the Columbia, but the Fraser River for the first time. | 
