Fort Vancouver Fire
In this blogpost, clerk Thomas Lowe, who is my eyes and ears at Fort Vancouver, is readying himself to tell us more of what is happening at this Pacific Coast…
Read moreHome from Fort Simpson
At the very end of August, 1834, the HBC ship, Dryad, carrying Peter Skene Ogden, William Fraser Tolmie, Dr. Alexander Kennedy, and all the other men who were employed at…
Read moreAnderson reaches Adelaide Peninsula
In this blogpost Chief Trader James Anderson, his clerk James Green Stewart, and their party of fourteen experienced men, have reached Montreal Island, and will move on to the western…
Read morePaul Kane to Fort Colvile
In early July, 1847, the artist Paul Kane joined the New Caledonia Brigades, travelling out with them to Fort Colvile, where he would join the Autumn Express to Boat Encampment…
Read moreHMS Modeste
“The HMS Modeste was an 18-gun wooden sloop that sailed in Victoria waters from 1844 to 1847.” Well, that’s what the Colonial Despatches says, but we know that she also…
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