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Entry Type	Person
Surname	Dease
Forenames	Peter Warren
Epithet	Fur trader and arctic explorer
Dates	1788-1863
Gender Identity	Male
History	Canadian
Biography	One of the chief factors of the Hudson Bay Company, who was hired by Sir John Franklin c.1824, to build and equip a fort (later known as Fort Franklin) on Great Bear Lake and to run it after Franklin left on his second overland expedition. He was later leader (with Thomas Simpson) of a Hudson Bay Company overland expedition to survey the Canada's north coast, 1836-1839
Authorised Form of Name	Dease; Peter Warren (1788-1863); Fur trader and arctic explorer

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