Publication of “The York Factory Express”
A 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…
Read moreRailways and The York Factory Express
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…
Read moreThe York Factory Express by ZOOM
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,…
Read moreThomas Lowe Crosses the Equator
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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