'Robert Campbell' (
21 February 1808 –
9 May 1894) was a
Hudson's Bay Company fur trader and explorer. He explored a large part of the southern
Yukon and established
Fort Frances, Yukon on
Frances Lake in the
Liard River basin and
Fort Selkirk, Yukon at the juncture of the
Yukon River and the
Pelly River.
The
Robert Campbell Highway in the Yukon is named after him.
External links
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Biography at the ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online''