• William Alexander Mouat (9 April 1821 – 11 April 1871) was a British seafarer. Born in London, he spent much of his career with the Hudson's Bay Company...
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  • Elizabeth Mouat (born 1996), English actress Kit Mouat (1920–1986), English poet Mike Mouat (born 1954), Canadian hockey player William Alexander Mouat (1821–1871)...
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    Fort Yukon developed from a trading post, Fort Yukon, established by Alexander Hunter Murray of the Hudson's Bay Company, on June 25, 1847. Murray drew...
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    Scottish and French Canadian descent. He lived with his great uncle, Colonel William Fraser, for a while as a child. Though baptized Roman Catholic, he was...
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    businessman from Boston, Massachusetts, who also founded a post at Fort William, in present-day Portland, Oregon, as part of a plan for a new trading and...
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    finding and following the Humboldt River, later named for German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, 330 miles (530 km) west to its dry sink in present-day Nevada...
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    Francis Benjamin Pillet, Alexander Ross, Augustus (Augustin) Roussil, Benjamin Roussel, David Stuart, Robert Stuart, William Wallace, and Henry Weeks...
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    Dictionary of Canadian Biography, the couple had three children together (Alexander, born 1801 or 1802; James, born 1803, and Cecilia, born 1812), but never...
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    Meryeta O'Dine, Olympic snowboard medalist Nilesh Patel, filmmaker David William Ramsay, disgraced judge Paul Ramsey, politician Daryl Reaugh, former NHL...
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    winter with the Secwépemc people. In May of the following year, trader Alexander Ross established a post, which was known as "Fort Cumcloups". The rival...
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