Norway House fire
I am proofing my York Factory Express manuscript, which is an interesting process. It is a chance to catch errors, and I found one. This is what I said in…
Read moreArtifacts
Many are the historical artifacts that can be found among descendants of Hudson’s Bay Company employees, but for James Birnie and Alexander Caulfield Anderson descendants, our ancestors’s fur trade artifacts…
Read moreLandmarks on the Upper Hayes
This is a continuation of a blog post that I published on September 22nd, and it tells the stories of the portages and other landmarks above Swampy Lake, that were…
Read moreTrees and Plants, from the York Factory Express Journals
The Gentlemen who kept the York Factory Express journals sometimes noted the landscape they passed through, and mentioned the plants that they saw on their way. Today I tweeted a…
Read moreJames McDougall
As I do my last *personal* edits of my York Factory Express book, I am attempting to determine which of the two McDougall brothers traveled west in the 1826 York…
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