Who was the first Briton to cross the Canadian Rockies to the Pacific?

Roxanne33

Simon Fraser was the first explorer to travel across Canada and reach the Pacific Ocean in 1808. Fraser was born May 20, 1776, in the small rural hamlet of Mapletown in Hoosick Township, New York, near Bennington, Vermont. His father, Simon Fraser, senior, and his mother Isabella Grant, had emigrated from Scotland in 1773. May 27 02, 4:35 PM

Cheryl

Do you consider a Scot a 'Briton'? If so, then Alexander Mackenzie reached the Pacific in 1789 (I believe -- it was before 1800). Also, David Thompson reached the Pacific in 1807. Fraser was eternally jealous of Mackenzie and quite po'd that Mackenzie was knighted and he was not. Refer to Barry Gough's 'First Across the Continent'. Jun 11 02, 2:28 PM