Thomas Lowe sails the Southern Atlantic

Thomas Lowe has survived the traditional shaving that results from crossing the equator on a sailing vessel in 1841, and now has the rounding of Cape Horn, at the southern…
Read moreThomas Lowe has survived the traditional shaving that results from crossing the equator on a sailing vessel in 1841, and now has the rounding of Cape Horn, at the southern…
Read moreSo how and when did Pierre Hudon-dit-Beaulieu come to New France? Why is easy to understand why: his father was dead of disease and his mother apparently safe. There was…
Read more“We remained at Edmonton till the morning of the 6th [October],” Paul Kane wrote, “preparing for the arduous journey which now lay before us.” Paul Kane was travelling west with…
Read moreA simple announcement: The publication of The York Factory Express will be delayed because the person who is doing the final editing and proofing of the book is seriously ill…
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