Fort George

British Columbia. Former name: Fraser River drainage
Confluence of Nechako River and Fraser River
53.9131 N 122.7453 W — Map 093G15 — GoogleGeoHack
Not currently an official name.
234 miles west of the Yellowhead Pass on the Canadian National Railway

Fort George, modern-day Prince George, was a fur trading post founded in 1807 by Simon Fraser [1776–1862] of the North West Company and named after King George III of Great Britain.

The Carrier (Dakelh) name for this place at the meeting of the Nechako and Fraser rivers is Thle-et-leh, meaning “the confluence.”

The fur-trading post Fort Astoria, built by the Pacific Fur Company at the mouth of the Columbia Riverin 1811, was renamed Fort George in 1813 when the North West Company bought out the assets of the Pacific Fur Company.

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