Peter Pond

Peter Pond was an eighteenth-century North American fur trader and mapmaker. His travel and trading experience gave him direct knowledge of parts of the Canadian interior.

Pond produced manuscript maps covering parts of the Mackenzie River basin. These maps helped communicate geographical information about a region that was still poorly known to European mapmakers.

His maps recorded routes, rivers, and interior geography gathered through the fur trade. They provided useful source material for later attempts to understand northern Canada.

Many of Pond's important maps were manuscripts rather than mass-produced printed maps. Their value comes from the field information they preserved about the Canadian interior.