Great Bear Lake
In Northern Canada. Area 11,821 square miles.
Discovered by men of the North West Company, and a post established on
or near the lake about 1800. Fort Franklin built on south-west shore,
1825, where Franklin wintered with Richardson and Back. Fort Confidence
built by Dease and Simpson, 1873, at eastern end of Dease Bay, on the
lake. =Index=: (Mackenzie / Selkirk / Simpson era) Area of, 39. =Bib.=: Franklin, Second Expedition;
Simpson, Narrative of Discoveries; Bell, Great Bear Lake (Geol.
Survey, 1899); Burpee, Search for the Western Sea.