Carlton to Red River
In most of the York Factory Express journals I managed to collect, the Annual Council Meeting for the Hudson’s Bay Company was held in Norway House. That meant that the…
Read moreSecond book: The York Factory Express
My soon-to-be-published book, The York Factory Express, tells the stories of the York Factory Express, and of the Saskatchewan brigades. These stories are told in the words of the gentlemen,…
Read moreThe Athabasca Portage North from Edmonton House
In this York Factory Express post (the Seventeenth in this series) I am going to comment on Edward Ermatinger’s 1827 incoming Express (called the Columbia Express), as they cross over…
Read moreYork Factory Express: Fort Pitt and West
The men of the incoming York Factory Express have, by this time, been away from their home post of Fort Vancouver for some five months now, and all are beginning…
Read moreYork Factory Express: Carlton House to Fort Pitt
George Traill Allan was a tiny man, only about five feet tall, and delicately built. Yet, he joined the “rough and tumble of the fur trade,” and had an important…
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