My new portrait, or one of them, for my upcoming book, The York Factory Express. You can now pre-order the book through the publisher’s website, at http://www.ronsdalepress.com/york-factory-express-the/ The cover design…
Read moreA simple announcement: The publication of The York Factory Express will be delayed because the person who is doing the final editing and proofing of the book is seriously ill…
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The musk oxen are unusual animals found in the Barren Grounds of the Northwest Territories, in Northern Canada, and almost no where else. Their relationships are interesting: they are closer…
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Everything ends. Even the York Factory Express, that ran for twenty-six years across the Rocky Mountains to Edmonton House, came to a sudden, crashing, end. The last outbound York Factory…
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I am setting up ZOOM: Everyone else is doing it, so why not me? I have talks set up at various locations in Washington State and in Alberta and beyond,…
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In 1841, Thomas Lowe sailed on the HBC ship Vancouver, on his way to the HBC’s Pacific coast headquarters, Fort Vancouver. He did not reach that post — but that…
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