. . . . "John Finlay (1774 \u2013 December 19, 1833) was a fur trader and explorer with the North West Company. He is best remembered for establishing the first fur trading post in what is now British Columbia, Canada and for his exploration of the Finlay River, one of the two major rivers forming the Peace River. Finlay was born in Montreal, the son of James Finlay, who himself was a significant player in the western Canadian fur trade. Finlay was apprenticed as a clerk in the North West Company in 1789 at the age of 15. He accompanied Alexander Mackenzie on his historic trip across the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean in 1792-93 becoming, with him, the first European to traverse North America. He was placed in charge of the North West Company's Athabasca Department in 1794, and the same year established a trading post at present-day Fort St. John, called Rocky Mountain Fort. This was the first European community established in present-day British Columbia and is the province's oldest continuously inhabited European-founded settlement. In 1797, Finlay revisited Mackenzie's excursion to the Pacific, with a view to taking the north branch of the Peace rather than the southern branch (the Parsnip River) taken by Mackenzie. This northern branch would come to be known as the Finlay River. Finlay perhaps thought that this route might present a less complicated conduit to the Pacific. No record remains of the expedition except in the writings of Samuel Black, who ascended to the source of the Finlay in 1824, noting that \"he had studied Finlay\u2019s chart.\" Nonetheless, it would appear from the information Black had that Finlay had only made it as far as the Ingenika River, about 130 km north of the Finlay River's confluence with the Peace. Indeed, Black's journal makes clear that the northern branch, far from being less complicated, was all but impassable in many parts, perhaps explaining Finlay's reluctance to travel more than about one-quarter of the river's actual length. Finlay remained in the North West Company's Athabasca Department, becoming a partner of the company in 1799. He retired from the fur trade in 1804 and returned to Montreal. Little is known of his life there, except that he obtained an appointment as deputy commissary-general."@en . . . "John Finlay (Montreal, 1774 - 19 de diciembre de 1833) fue un comerciante de pieles y explorador con la Compa\u00F1\u00EDa del Noroeste. Es recordado por haber establecido el primer puesto comercial de pieles en lo que hoy es la Columbia Brit\u00E1nica, Canad\u00E1 y por su exploraci\u00F3n del r\u00EDo Finlay, una de las dos grandes fuentes del r\u00EDo de la Paz."@es . . . . . . . . . . . . . "John Finlay (1774 \u2013 December 19, 1833) was a fur trader and explorer with the North West Company. He is best remembered for establishing the first fur trading post in what is now British Columbia, Canada and for his exploration of the Finlay River, one of the two major rivers forming the Peace River. Finlay remained in the North West Company's Athabasca Department, becoming a partner of the company in 1799. He retired from the fur trade in 1804 and returned to Montreal. Little is known of his life there, except that he obtained an appointment as deputy commissary-general."@en . "John Finlay (fur trader)"@en . . . . . . . . "2914"^^ . . "John Finlay (Montreal, 1774 - 19 de diciembre de 1833) fue un comerciante de pieles y explorador con la Compa\u00F1\u00EDa del Noroeste. Es recordado por haber establecido el primer puesto comercial de pieles en lo que hoy es la Columbia Brit\u00E1nica, Canad\u00E1 y por su exploraci\u00F3n del r\u00EDo Finlay, una de las dos grandes fuentes del r\u00EDo de la Paz. Finlay naci\u00F3 en Montreal, hijo de James Finlay, que asimismo jug\u00F3 un importante papel en el comercio de pieles de la parte occidental de Canad\u00E1. Finlay entr\u00F3 de empleado en la Compa\u00F1\u00EDa del Noroeste como aprendiz en 1789, a la edad de 15 a\u00F1os. Acompa\u00F1\u00F3 a Alexander MacKenzie en su hist\u00F3rico viaje a trav\u00E9s del continente en el que cruz\u00F3 las Monta\u00F1as Rocosas y lleg\u00F3 al oc\u00E9ano Pac\u00EDfico en 1792-1793, siendo con \u00E9l, uno de los primeros occidentales en atravesar a pie Am\u00E9rica del Norte. Fue puesto a cargo del departamento de la regi\u00F3n de Athabasca de la Compa\u00F1\u00EDa del Noroeste en 1794, y ese mismo a\u00F1o estableci\u00F3 un puesto comercial en la actual localidad de Fort St. John, llamado \u00ABRocky Mountain Fort\u00BB. Esa fue la primera comunidad europea establecida en lo que en la actualidad es la Columbia Brit\u00E1nica, y es tambi\u00E9n el asentamiento fundado por europeos habitado continuamente m\u00E1s antiguo de la provincia. En 1797, Finlay realiz\u00F3 de nuevo la misma ruta que hab\u00EDa seguido en la expedici\u00F3n con Mackenzie al Pac\u00EDfico, con el objetivo de explorar el ramal Norte del r\u00EDo de la Paz, esperando que fuese una v\u00EDa menos complicado hacia el Pac\u00EDfico (Mackenzie hab\u00EDa seguido el ramal Sur, el r\u00EDo Parsnip). Este ramal norte es el que llegar\u00EDa a ser conocido con su nombre, el r\u00EDo Finlay. No hay ninguna noticia de esa expedici\u00F3n excepto en los escritos de Samuel Black, que remont\u00F3 en 1824 el r\u00EDo Finlay hasta sus fuentes, se\u00F1alando que \u00ABhab\u00EDa estudiado la carta [mapa] de Finlay\u00BB (he had studied Finlay\u2019s chart). Sin embargo, seg\u00FAn se desprende de la informaci\u00F3n de Samuel Black, Finlay s\u00F3lo habr\u00EDa llegado hasta el r\u00EDo Ingenika, a unos 130 km al norte de la confluencia del Finlay con el r\u00EDo de la Paz. De hecho, el diario de Black deja claro que el ramal Norte, lejos de ser menos complicado, era intransitable en muchas partes, lo que tal vez explica la renuncia de Finlay despu\u00E9s de recorrer solamente una cuarta parte del curso del r\u00EDo. Finlay permaneci\u00F3 en el departamento de Athabasca de la Compa\u00F1\u00EDa del Noroeste, llegando a ser un socio de la empresa en 1799. Se retir\u00F3 del comercio de pieles en 1804 y regres\u00F3 a Montreal. Poco se sabe de su vida despu\u00E9s, excepto que obtuvo un nombramiento como comisario general adjunto."@es . . . . . . . . . "John Finlay"@es . . . . . "887964583"^^ . . "3237265"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . .