Peter Pond

Peter Pond ( * 1740 in Milford, Connecticut, † 1807 in North America ) was a fur trader, and explorer.

Particulars

Pond joined at the age of 16 years in the colonial army and participated in the conquest of the French Montréal in part by the British. In the years 1775/76 he worked in the area of ​​the rivers Sturgeon and Saskatchewan before he took part in the two following years in the expeditions of explorers and fur traders Alexander Henry and Benjamin Frobisher on Churchill River, where they up to the river Clearwater and Lake Athabasca penetrated.

From 1780 explored and mapped the Pond northwestern Canada from Lac la Ronge up to Lac Île -à -la- Crosse, where he 1782/83 wintered. Because of its inadequacy him made ​​a few cartographic error here.

The greatest merit Ponds lies in the research of large parts of the lakes and rivers of Central Canada. Mentioned are the lakes Cree Lake, Lac la Ronge, Lac la Plonge, Gold Lake and Candle Lake and the rivers Peace River, Churchill River and Athabasca River. Especially the better-known explorer Alexander MacKenzie could hardly carry his projects without the preliminary geographical Ponds.

Pond remained unrecognized as a researcher during his lifetime, after his death of Peter Pond Lake in northern Saskatchewan received its name in his honor.