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All Canadian Route 2

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 10, 2018 Brigade Trails, Explorations
All Canadian Route 2

Well, this week we will catch these Ontario “greenhorns” up to all the other groups of men who, in previous posts, are attempting to find their way to the Klondike…

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South of Fort Colvile, on the Columbia River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson December 17, 2016 HBC Transportation Systems, York Factory Express
South of Fort Colvile, on the Columbia River

This post is the twenty first leg of the York Factory Express journey, and we are “falling down” the Columbia River south of Fort Colvile. The gentlemen who were keeping…

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The Grande Dalles in the NWC’s Long Narrows

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson December 10, 2016 "The Pathfinder: A.C. Anderson's Journeys in the West.", York Factory Express
The Grande Dalles in the NWC’s Long Narrows

The Long Narrows of the North West Company was a “five mile stretch of fast water 194 river miles from Fort George,” or Astoria, their then headquarters on the Pacific…

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The outgoing 1826 York Factory Express

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson April 30, 2016 James and Charlot Birnie of Cathlamet, York Factory Express
The outgoing 1826 York Factory Express

We, who are descendants of James Birnie of Spokane House and Fort Vancouver, have known he went out in the 1826 York Factory Express to Hudson Bay. What we did…

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