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Line 27: [[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's life details are as follows:'''s much time travelling in the wilderness. '''Sir George Simpson''' ({{circa\|1792}} – 7 September 1860) was a Scottish explorer and colonial governor of the [[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 kilometres corresponding to nearly forty per cent 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 travelling in the wilderness. Simpson was also the first person known to have "circumnavigated" the world by land, and became the most powerful man of the [[North American fur trade]] during his lifetime.<ref>[https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6368924 An Overland Journey round the World during the years 1841 and 1842, SIR GEORGE SIMPSON, 1847], The Private Collection of William S. Reese: Part Two, Christie's.</ref><ref>[https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/kidsgeorge.htm George Stewart Simpson], Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, National Park Service, August 14, 2020</ref>

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