Liard River
A tributary of the Mackenzie; rises in the Yukon
district, south-west of Frances Lake, about lat. 61 deg., long. 131 deg.
Its length is about 550 miles. Explored by McLeod in 1834, and by Campbell
in 1840. The Upper Liard is known only by Indian report. Fort Simpson,
of the Hudson's Bay Company, is at the mouth of the main river; and Fort
Liard at the confluence of Black River and the Liard, not far from the
point where British Columbia, the Yukon, and the North-West Territories
meet. =Index=: (Sir James Douglas era) Operations of Hudson's Bay Company on, 123.