“The Pathfinder”
My name is Nancy Marguerite Anderson, and I am the author of the book, The Pathfinder: A. C. Anderson’s Journeys in the West [Victoria, BC: Heritage House Publ, 2011] Anderson’s…
Read moreA Winter Encampment
So let’s continue this young clerk’s journey by dogsled, from the banks of the Pennygataway River where we have left him. He begins his story again, with instructions on how…
Read moreYork Boats
When the men, who travelled in the outgoing York Factory Express from Fort Vancouver, reached Edmonton House, they were absorbed into the Saskatchewan brigades that carried their packs of furs…
Read moreClosing Fort Simpson
I want to make it clear immediately that the Fort Simpson I am speaking of here is NOT the Fort Simpson that stood on the banks of the Mackenzie River.…
Read moreLiard River to Pelly Banks
My last blogpost covered the HBC attempt to build a post on the lower Stikine River. They failed, and Peter Skene Ogden returned to Fort Simpson, on the Nass River,…
Read moreShoes, again.
I wrote about ‘shoes in the fur trade’ quite a while ago, when I discovered that there actually were some. But the question was, why were shoes not imported to…
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