Happy New Year
We have learned from my last post that Christmas Day in the HBC fur trade tended to be quiet and restful, with little trouble from anyone. So let’s see what…
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It is Christmas Day at the end of this week, and for the fun of it I am reporting on as many fur trade Christmases as I can find. We…
Read moreThomas Lowe at Sea
Thomas Lowe joined the fur trade of the Hudson’s Bay Company from Scotland in 1841, and set off on his journey to Fort Vancouver, near the mouth of the Columbia…
Read moreHBCA Digitization Program
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…
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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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