Fraser River

Rises in Rocky Mountains, and flows into Strait of

Georgia. Its upper waters discovered by Alexander Mackenzie, 1793; and

first explored down to its mouth by Simon Fraser, 1808. The total length

of the river is 695 miles. =Index=: (Sir James Douglas era) Mackenzie on, 54; supposed to be

the Oregon, 54; native name Tacouche Tesse, 54; mistaken for the

Columbia, 59; Simon Fraser on, 60-61; described, 60-61; route of

fur-brigades changed to, from the Columbia, 186. (Mackenzie / Selkirk / Simpson era) Mackenzie on,

77-79; Fraser on, 108-109. =Bib.=: Fraser Journal in Masson,

Bourgeois de la Compagnie du Nord-Ouest.