CAMPBELL, ROBERT

born Feb. 21, 1808, Glenlyon, Perth, Scot. died May 9, 1894, Merchiston Ranch, near Riding Mountain, Man., Can. Canadian frontier trader in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company (183071) and an early explorer of the Yukon region. Between 1840 and 1852, when Campbell left the territory, he explored the headwaters of the Yukon River and also the Pelly (a Yukon tributary) and Liard rivers. In 1842, at Frances Lake (now in eastern Yukon Territory), he established the first of several Hudson's Bay Company fur-trading posts in the Yukon. On leaving the region he traveled on snowshoes 3,000 miles (4,800 km) to Montreal.