Joseph and Josephine Rondeau
I get asked a lot of questions, for the most part because people think I know everything about the Hudson’s Bay Company. I do not, although I have a lot…
Read moreTwo Canoes: To Athabasca Pass
In the eighteenth post in the Two Canoes series, at http://nancymargueriteanderson.com/two-canoes-eighteen/ John Work and Peter Skene Ogden traveled through Jasper Valley to the Grande Traverse on the Whirlpool River, where…
Read moreTwo Canoes: North from Cumberland House
Here is the first of this pair of journals, as two sets of canoes are making their way west to the Columbia, by the old canoe route followed by the…
Read moreNew History Books
Perhaps the history of the fur trade, and the people who worked in it, is becoming fashionable again. There have been a number of new history books issued and more…
Read moreDugald Mactavish
Who was Dugald Mactavish, who took over Fort Vancouver after Peter Skene Ogden’s death in 1854? Bruce McIntyre Watson, in his book “Lives Lived,” tells us he was born…
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