The York Factory Express
My new portrait, or one of them, for my upcoming book, The York Factory Express, which will actually be coming out in October, and not in May as previously reported.…
Read moreA Hudon Marriage and Baptism in old France
I told you in a previous post that I acquired a manuscript from an archives in France, that tells us of the Hudon-dit-Beaulieu family in France and in Quebec. But…
Read moreMen in the 1827 York Factory Express
Edward Ermatinger took out the 1827 York Factory Express, and he kept a journal which has been published in Journal of the Royal Society of Canada, in 1912. The nice…
Read moreThe men in the 1826 York Factory Express
Many of the men who travelled in the York Factory Express worked west of the Rocky Mountains for many years — some worked here for just a year or so.…
Read moreCheese
Yes. Cheese. An odd subject, perhaps, for a fur trade blogpost, but I have found cheese mentioned at times in the list of provisions the HBC men carried across the…
Read moreSioux Island Rapid
Even if we do not figure out the answer, it’s a lovely little painting that we can all enjoy. It preserves a little bit of Washington history that has flooded…
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