Second book: The York Factory Express
My so-far unpublished manuscript, “The York Factory Express,” tells the stories of the York Factory Express, and of the Saskatchewan brigades. These stories are told in the words of…
Read moreYork Factory Express: Crossing of the Continental Divide to the West
I am amused. Someone-out-there appears to be anxious for me to continue with the York Factory Express thread, and they “searched,” in such a way that their secret request appeared…
Read moreThe Athabasca Portage North from Edmonton House
In this York Factory Express post (the Seventeenth in this series) I am going to comment on Edward Ermatinger’s 1827 incoming Express (called the Columbia Express), as they cross over…
Read moreYork Factory Express: Fort Pitt and West
The men of the incoming York Factory Express have, by this time, been away from their home post of Fort Vancouver for some five months now, and all are beginning…
Read moreTwo Canoe Journeys
This is the beginning of a new series, which covers two separate canoe journeys made from York Factory, by different routes to the West side of the Rocky Mountains. The…
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