Fire Bag
The fire bag was an important piece of equipment to the Canadien voyageur, and to anyone else who travelled in the wilderness. Why? you might ask. Here is the answer,…
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My book, The York Factory Express, IS available for pre-order through the publisher. Please use this page on his website to order: http://www.ronsdalepress.com/york-factory-express-the/ So this is what I am writing…
Read moreDescending the Hayes River
The York Factory Express left Fort Vancouver, 100 miles from the mouth of the Columbia River, in late March, and by mid-June were at Norway House, on Playgreen Lake. Their…
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…
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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…
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