Hayes River Posts
In 1826, when the first York Factory Express men descended the Hayes River from Norway House to York Factory, they passed through only one Hayes River post: Oxford House. That…
Read moreDavid Douglas’s Athabasca River
In 1827, botanist David Douglas travelled with the outgoing York Factory Express down the Athabasca River to Jasper’s House. From the height of the Rocky Mountains, as shown above, the…
Read moreThe Chilkats on the Northwest coast
The Tlingit Chilkats were a tribe of First Nations people who resided on Chilkat Inlet, on the Northwest Coast, and who traveled over Chilkat Pass to trade with the First…
Read moreJean Baptiste Bolduc at Fort Albert
In 1843, the missionary Jean Baptiste Zacharie Bolduc arrived at the new location of Fort Albert with Chief Factor James Douglas. His story gives us an interesting look at the…
Read moreJames Anderson in Lake McDougall
Chief Trader James Anderson, and his clerk James Green Stewart, are now making their way through massive Lake McDougall on the Great Fish River, on their way north to the…
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