Peter Fidler did more to ‘map’ the Canadian wilderness than anyone else – but it took more than a century before his efforts gained recognition, as Deborah Barham Smith reports.
BORN IN BOLSOVER IN 1769, intrepid nineteen-year-old Peter Fidler, signed up as a labourer with the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) in London because – as J.G. MacGregor said in his book Peter Fidler, the Lost Explorer – “the call of adventure rather than the nudge of necessity must have prompted him to take service with the company.”…