Canadian explorer who, in 1778, was the first white man to discover the area around what is now Athabasca, Canada. His explorations opened this part of the Canadian wilderness for the fur trade and helped extend British influence through central...

Peter Pond (1739 or 1740 – 1807) was born in Milford, Connecticut. He was a soldier with a Connecticut regiment, a fur trader, founding member of the North West Company, an explorer and cartographer. Despite his accomplishments he died in relative...

In eighteenth-century Britain and its North American colonies, the publishing industry both throve upon and enabled European empires, facilitating and profiting from the flow of information between center and periphery. In the North American hinterlands, far from the urban centers where texts were...

ROBERT RATISH, STAFF WRITER The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 10-02-2003 On Oldham Pond -- WPU's new alumni center doubles as ecology lab By ROBERT RATISH, STAFF WRITER Date: 10-02-2003, Thursday Section: LOCAL Edtion: Two Star P A group of students had...