Robert Campbell (fur trader)

Robert Campbell (21 February 1808 – 9 May 1894) was a Hudson's Bay Company fur trader and explorer.

He explored a large part of the southern Yukon and northern British Columbia.

He established the short-lived Dease Lake Post, and in 1838 he was the first European to reach the Stikine River overland.

All of the posts that he established were abandoned within a few years, largely because of to the high price of transporting trade goods from Hudson Bay, via the Methye Portage and Mackenzie River.

Meanwhile, there were already well-established native trading routes leading to nearby Russian Alaska on the Pacific Ocean.