Giscome Portage


Leading from the Parsnip River to the Fraser, in

northern British Columbia. Named by an independent trader, Peter

Dunlevy, after his cook, about the year 1873. Both Mackenzie and Simon

Fraser crossed from the Parsnip to the Fraser, the former in 1793, and

the latter in 1806, but neither went by way of Giscome Portage, which

was not discovered until some years later. =Bib.=: Burpee, Search for

the Western Sea.



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