Freshwater passages : the trade and travels of Peter Pond / David Chapin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the Methye Portage -- Provincial soldier -- A Connecticut Yankee's pathway to Detroit -- The Great Lakes trade -- Imagining and exploring a continent -- Mississippi trader -- Partners and rivals -- Saskatchewan River trader -- North to Athabasca -- Back east -- The Churchill River and Athabasca, 1781-1784 -- Observing the Northwest -- Voyages, schemes, and petitions -- Athabasca, 1785-1788 -- Final explorations -- Return -- A new world.

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Peter Pond, a fur trader, explorer, and amateur mapmaker, spent his life ranging much farther afield than Milford, Connecticut, where he was born and died (1740-1807). He traded around the Great Lakes, on the Mississippi and the Minnesota Rivers, and in the Canadian Northwest and is also well known as a partner in Montreal's North West Company and as mentor to Alexander Mackenzie, who journeyed down the Mackenzie River to the Arctic Sea. Knowing eighteenth-century North America on a scale that few others did, Pond drew some of the earliest maps of western Canada. In this m.

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