Peter Fidler

Peter Fidler (16 August 1769 – 17 December 1822) was a British surveyor, map-maker, fur trader and explorer who had a long career in the employ of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) in what later became Canada.Although the river route to the west his employer sought was found not to exist, on this and following expeditions Fidler gathered data for the first of several maps that he produced.[7] In 1806, after two years of harassment by Samuel Black of the rival North West Company, Fidler surrendered Nottingham House on Lake Athabasca and fled the post with his men.Fidler was surveyor and district manager at Brandon House between 1814 and 1819, including when the post was plundered by a group of men who days later would be involved in the Battle of Seven Oaks.In his will he requested that anything remaining from his other bequests be placed in a fund and the interest be allowed to accumulate until August 16, 1969, at which time the whole would be paid to the next male heir in descent from his son Peter.
Peter Fidler's map of Swan River posts
Peter Fidler's map of the Swan River and Upper Assiniboine River, 1795
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