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Paul Kane reaches Edmonton

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 24, 2020 HBC Transportation Systems, York Factory Express
Paul Kane reaches Edmonton

In our continuing York Factory Express journal, we are following Paul Kane across the continent, from Norway House to the Columbia District. At the moment he is just arriving at…

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Paul Kane’s Buffalo Hunt

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson September 26, 2020 Hudson's Bay Company, York Factory Express
Paul Kane’s Buffalo Hunt

Paul Kane is now leaving Carlton House, on horseback, with some of the gentlemen of the incoming Columbia Brigades. The year is 1846, and Mr. Rundell is Reverend Robert Terrill…

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Paul Kane

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 29, 2020 Hudson's Bay Company, York Factory Express
Paul Kane

I have not paid enough attention to Paul Kane, and I am beginning to regret that fact. He is a very useful guy when it comes to west-of-the-Rockies history, and…

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The York Factory Express for Booksellers

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 15, 2020 HBC Transportation Systems, York Factory Express
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…

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Fort Pitt

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 18, 2020 Hudson's Bay Company, York Factory Express
Fort Pitt

  Fort Pitt was a provisioning post, constructed in 1829-31, 217 miles downriver from Edmonton House. Before this post was built, the men of the outgoing Saskatchewan Brigades (which included…

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