Descending 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 moreMen in the 1827 York Factory Express
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…
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: John Work comes down the Columbia River
So 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 moreTwo Canoes: Jasper Valley
In October 1823, John Work and Peter Skene Ogden are making their way west from York Factory, on Hudson Bay, to their new employment on the Pacific slopes. For Work…
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