Landmarks on the Echimamish River

This is the third post in a series on landmarks on the Hayes and Echimamish River, with descriptions taken from John Franklin’s Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of…
Read moreThis is the third post in a series on landmarks on the Hayes and Echimamish River, with descriptions taken from John Franklin’s Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of…
Read moreJason Ovide Allard grew up in the HBC, at Forts Langley and Yale. His father was a Canadien named Ovid Allard, who had several Indigenous wives. Jason’s mother was an…
Read moreIn this post we will follow John Work and Peter Skene Ogden, as they make their way from Norway House, on Playgreen Lake, toward Cumberland House on the Saskatchewan River.…
Read moreOn their arrival at Norway House, the men of the returning York Factory Express (now called the Columbia Express) knew they had completed the most difficult part of their journey:…
Read moreJuly 1823, Friday 18. Having received orders to that effect I embarked with Mr. [Peter Skene] Ogden for the Columbia with two light canoes, four men in each. Mr. Lewis…
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