Alexander Ross (fur trader)
- Alexander Ross (fur trader)
Alexander Ross (May 9 1783 – October 23 1856) was a fur trader and author who emigrated to Upper Canada, (Ontario), from Scotland in about 1805.
Working for John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company, Ross took part in the founding of Astoria, a fur-trading post in Oregon in 1811. He joined the North West Company in 1813, after it acquired Astoria. In 1818 Ross acted as scribe for a trading party from the North West Company who traveled within sight of the Teton Range in modern Wyoming. He and trapper Daniel Potts apparently viewed some of the thermal features of what is today Yellowstone National Park. Each of them produced an account of these features, with Ross reporting that "...boiling fountain having different degrees of temperature were very numerous; one or two were so very hot as to boil meat."(Breining, p. 69)
In 1821, when the North West merged with the Hudson's Bay Company, he worked for the latter for four years. Ross subsequently moved to the Red River Settlement, what is today Manitoba, where he served as sheriff and a member of the council.
ee also
*Alexander Ross
External links
* [http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=4167 Biography at "the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online"]
References
* Breining, Greg, "Super Volcano: The Ticking Time Bomb beneath Yellowstone National Park" (St. Paul, MN: Voyageur Press, 2007). A popularized scientific look at the Yellowstone area's geological and historical past and potential future. ISBN 978-0-7603-2925-2
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