WHAT’S IN A NAME: 25 years before Beltrami, a British-Canadian fur trader explored the area

… because in 1798, a British-Canadian man named David Thompson was … who was known to some Native American people as “Koo-Koo … War, probably for Port Hope, Canada, on the north shore of … name in the eastern states, Canada and England.… because in 1798, a British-Canadian man named David Thompson was … who was known to some Native American people as “Koo-Koo … War, probably for Port Hope, Canada, on the north shore of … name in the eastern states, Canada and England.