Closing 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 moreI 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 moreSo in the last John Work journal, he and Peter Skene Ogden had reached Boat Encampment, having come down the Big Hill from Athabasca Pass. The year is 1823 —…
Read moreThis 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…
Read moreAt Fort Okanogan, the brigades prepared to descend the Columbia River to Fort Nez Perces [Walla Walla] and Fort Vancouver, their headquarters a hundred miles inland from the mouth of…
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