The York Factory Express for Booksellers
The annual York Factory Express journey to Hudson Bay, and its return as the Columbia Express, was unique to the Hudson’s Bay Company’s fur trade west of the Rocky Mountains…
Read moreMichel Kaonassé
I fell into Michel Kaonassé’s story long before I knew how important it would be in my York Factory Express book. Kaonassé worked at Fort Alexandria under my great-grandfather Alexander…
Read moreDevil’s Club
You may wonder why I am beginning a post with this subject — wonder no longer. Devil’s Club is a poisonous plant that grows everywhere in the province of B.C.,…
Read moreTwo Canoes: The “Big Hill”
In his journal it appears that John Work, and his incoming party, has just passed the Council’s Punch Bowl when they “Encamped in the afternoon near what is called the…
Read moreTwo Canoes: To Athabasca Pass
In the eighteenth post in the Two Canoes series, at http://nancymargueriteanderson.com/two-canoes-eighteen/ John Work and Peter Skene Ogden traveled through Jasper Valley to the Grande Traverse on the Whirlpool River, where…
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