Simon Fraser University
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Simon Fraser University is a public research university in British Columbia, Canada. It maintains three campuses in Greater Vancouver, respectively located in Burnaby, Surrey, and Vancouver. The 170-h
Aerial view of the Burnaby Mountain Campus
Technology and Science Complex 2 (TASC 2), housing major research laboratories and offices
Blusson Hall, containing the Faculty of Health Sciences
W.A.C. Bennett Library
Simon Fraser (explorer)
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Simon Fraser was a Canadian explorer and fur trader who charted much of what is now the Canadian province of British Columbia. He also built the first European settlement in British Columbia.
Simon Fraser University
…British Columbia Legislature gave formal assent on March 1, 1963, for the establishment of the university in Burnaby. The university was named after Simon Fraser, a North West Company fur trader and explorer. In May of the same year, Gordon M. Shrum was appointed as the university's first chancellor. From a…
Pre-1825 portrait of Fraser
This historic marker is located in front of Fraser's birthplace home. The home is still standing in Mapletown, NY, one-half mile north of NY Route 7 on Rensselaer County of Mapletown, Hoosick, New York.
A bust of Fraser, located by the river that bears his name, in New Westminster, British Columbia