Map of the interior of North America, engraved for Harmon’s Journal
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Map of the interior of North America (detail), engraved for Harmon’s Journal
Harmon was born in Bennington, Vermont on February 19, 1778, son of Daniel and Lucretia (Dewey) Harmon and died April 23, 1843, in Sault-au-Récollet (Montreal North), Lower Canada. He took as a common-law wife Elizabeth (Lizzette) Laval or Duval (ca. 1790 – 1862) in 1805, at South Branch House, Northwest Territory, British America (he legally married in 1819, at Fort William, Ontario, Canada) and had 12 children.
Harmon joined the North West Company in 1800 and gradually moved westward, finally arriving in New Caledonia in 1809. There he served for ten years at Fort Saint James and Fort Fraser.
The map seems largely based on Mackenzie’s map North America 1803.
- Harmon, Daniel Williams [1778–1843]. A Journal of Voyages and Travels in the interior of North America between the 47th and 58th degree of North latitude, extending from Montreal nearly to the Pacific Ocean, a distance of about 5000 miles, including an account of the Principal occurrences during a residence of nearly nineteen years in different parts of that country. To which are added A Concise Description of the face of the Country, Its Inhabitants, their manners, customs, laws, etc.. Burlington, Vermont: 1820, endpocket. Internet Archive