He found the upper reaches of the Fraser River and reached the Pacific coast of what is now Canada on July 20 of that year, completing the first recorded transcontinental crossing of North America north of Mexico.
Atopou os tramos superiores do río Fraser e acadou a costa do Pacífico onde agora está Canadá o 20 de xullo dese ano, completando o primeiro cruzamento transcontinental rexistrado dende Norteamérica ao Norte de México.