====== Fraser, Simon (NWC name) ====== 
 The explorer of the Fraser River (see prev. biog.) was one of five Simon Frasers associated with the North West Company. Among these, Simon Fraser (1760?-6 May 1839) of Ste. Anne’s, Island of Montreal, was married to Catherine McKay, who belonged to a GC Loyalist family and was the sister of the fur traders Alexander and William McKay. The three other Simon Frasers seem to have had no GC connections. Simon and Fraser were names that “went together” among the Highland Scots, just as the names Colin and Campbell went together.


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<fs small>W.S. Wallace, “Simon Fraser of Ste. Anne’s,” //Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada: Section II//, 3rd Series, Vol. 28, Series II (May 1934) 51-59. This work contains short biog. sketches of all five Simon Frasers of the NWC. * Wallace
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