Thomas Lowe and the York Factory Express
Thomas Lowe worked for the Hudson’s Bay Company from 1842 to his retirement in 1849, and he kept journals of his experiences in the Columbia district the entire time he…
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I have a few favourite characters among the enormous cluster of persons who lived West of the Rockies Mountains in the 1840s. Thomas Lowe is one of them. He was…
Read moreLiard River 2
I promised my Twitter followers I was going to keep them wet and cold over Christmas, and I can’t think of a better way to do that than to continue…
Read moreJames Douglas and the Harrison-Lillooet Trail
So we have brought Alexander Caulfield Anderson all the way to Fort Langley, via what later came to be known as the Harrison-Lillooet trail. What happened next? Well, nothing —…
Read moreThe Fraser Canyon War
I have to re-write the last two chapters of my brigades book because I fell into a story I had not researched nor discovered until now. Why had I not…
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