Who is Peter dease?

Answer 1

Peter Warren Dease (1 January 1788 - 17 January 1863) worked for the Hudson's Bay Company as a chief trader and later chief factor. In 1824, John Franklin asked Dease to join his second overland expedition to chart the north coast of America. Dease was to set up a base camp on Great Bear Lake at which the expedition would spend the next two winters. In 1827, the HBC put Dease in charge of Fort Good Hope, the northernmost of the HBC's trading posts. From 1837 to 1839, Dease led an HBC expedition to finish mapping the Arctic coast of America. Dease and his second-in-command, Thomas Simpson, traveled by boat down the Mackenzie River and west along the coast to Point Barrow, Alaska. They spent the winter on Great Bear Lake and then turned eastward but did not get much farther than Franklin's Point Turnagain. After another winter at Great Bear Lake, they tried again and this time reached the mouth of Back's Great Fish River before returning to Fort Simpson. Barr, William, ed. (2002). From Barrow to Boothia, The Arctic Journal of Chief Factor Peter Warren Dease, 1836-1839. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press.