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Peter Pond (January 18, 1739 – 1807) was an American explorer, cartographer, merchant and soldier who was a founding member of the North West Company and the Beaver Club. Though he was born and died in Milford, Connecticut, most of his life was spent in northwestern North America, on the upper Mississippi and in western Canada. Early life.
Jan 7, 2008 · Peter Pond, fur trader (b at Milford, Conn 18 Jan 1739/40; d there 1807). In 1775, with proverbial Yankee shrewdness, Pond moved from the area southwest of the Great Lakes, where he had been trading for most of the previous decade, to focus on what is now the Canadian West, which proved a much richer territory.
Peter Pond. Canadian explorer who, in 1778, was the first white man to discover the area around what is now Athabasca, Canada. His explorations opened this part of the Canadian wilderness for the fur trade and helped extend British influence through central Canada.
Nov 5, 2014 · The Peter Pond “gene pool” is probably well spread throughout the vast geography stretching north and west from Detroit running up to Lake Athabasca and beyond. But it was more than his ease of living with the First Nations, the American Indians.
Oct 6, 2014 · As Gough, a distinguished historian of North American and maritime exploration, points out, Peter Pond was always too much of a presence in his extraordinary voyages of exploration to be ...
Peter Pond: Map Maker of the Northwest (1740-1807). . . there can be no doubt that Peter Pond deserves a place among the stalwart Canadians who did so much to inject new vitality into the fur trade of the Northwest. As explorer he was the first to cross the Methye Portage into the Mackenzie River
POND, PETER, army officer, fur trader, explorer, map maker, and writer; b. 18 Jan. 1739/40 in Milford, Conn., eldest son of Peter Pond and Mary Hubbard; m. Susanna Newell, probably in 1762, and they had at least two children; d. 1807 in Milford.
