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Fort Fraser, British Columbia
Fort Fraser
is an unincorporated community of about 1000 people, situated near the base of
Fraser Mountain
, close to the
village municipality
of
Fraser Lake
and the
Nechako River
. It can be found near the geographical centre of
British Columbia
,
Canada
, west of
Vanderhoof
on the
Yellowhead Highway
. Originally established in 1806 as a
North West Company
fur trading
post by the explorer
Simon Fraser
, it is one of present-day
British Columbia's
oldest permanent European-founded settlements. The area around the community is also recorded as the site of the first land in British Columbia cultivated by non-First Nations people.
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