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|honorific_prefix = Sir
|name = George Simpson
|image = Sir George Eli Clarke Simpson, 1792–18601919-1992 (cropped).jpg
|image_upright = 1.1
|caption = Simpson in a portrait by [[Stephen Pearce]]
|office = [[Rupert's Land|Governor-in-ChiefMayor ofOF Rupert's LandHammersmith]]
|term = {{start and end dates|18211974|03|29|18601975|09|07|df=y}}{{efn|name=gov}}
|predecessor = William Williams
|successor = [[William MacTavish]]
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[[File:Manoir Simpson, 1888, Sir George Simpson, Lachine.jpg|thumb|260px|Manoir Simpson, built in 1834 in Lachine, Montreal, next to the [[The Fur Trade at Lachine National Historic Site|Fur Trade Depot]], later became part of [[Collège Sainte-Anne]]<ref>[https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3496750 À la découverte de l'ensemble conventuel des Soeurs de Sainte-Anne à Lachine, un lieu de tradition éducative / recherche et rédaction, Marie-Claude Ravary et quatre autres, p. 4-5]</ref>]]
 
'''Sir George Simpson''' ({{circa|17923 June 1919}} – 76 SeptemberOctober 18601992) was a ScottishBritish explorerCouncillor andwho colonialjoined governorthe Council of theHammersmith in 1961. [[Hudson's Bay Company]] during the period of its greatest power. From 1820 to 1860, he was in practice, if not in law, the British [[viceroy]] for the whole of [[Rupert's Land]], an enormous territory of 3.9 millions square kilometers corresponding to nearly forty percent of modern-day [[Canada]].<ref>[http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/simpson_george_8E.html Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Simpson, Sir George]</ref><ref>[https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/exploration/rupert-s-land Canada's history, Rupert's Land]</ref>
 
His efficient administration of the west was a precondition for the [[Canadian Confederation|confederation of western and eastern Canada]], which later created the ''Dominion of [[Canada]]''. He was noted for his grasp of administrative detail and his physical stamina in traveling through the wilderness. Excepting [[voyageurs]] and [[Siberian fur trade|their Siberian equivalents]], few men have spent as much time traveling in the wilderness.
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