My new portrait, or one of them, for my newly-published book, The York Factory Express. You can order the book through the publisher’s website, at http://www.ronsdalepress.com/york-factory-express-the/ The cover design is…
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Thomas Lowe kept a series of journals of his time at Fort Vancouver, and they contain a great deal of information about the running of that Pacific Coast headquarters. In…
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Volcanoes appear to be very much a part of the geology of the brigade trails that run through the Okanagan valley, and I was really interested to hear about the…
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I was invited to take part in a Voyageur celebration held at Michaud House, in Langley, on May 13, 2023. It was a hot, hot day — the first hot…
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In early to mid- October of 1841, clerk Alexander Caulfield Anderson finally arrived at the first Fort Nisqually, built in spring, 1833, on Puget Sound. For the fort’s early history,…
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So, in a continuation of this series, in Fall 1847, the artist Paul Kane has crossed the Rocky Mountains and made his way to the little post of Jasper’s House,…
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