Anderson on the Great Fish River
In 1855, James Anderson (A), Chief Trader in the Hudson’s Bay Company, continues his journey down the Back, or Great Fish River toward the Arctic Ocean. He had been sent…
Read morePeace comes to Fort McLoughlin
Peace came to Fort McLoughlin when Donald Manson, the man in charge of the HBC fort, allowed some of the First Nations men who had besieged them into the fort…
Read moreThomas Lowe’s Sandwich Islands
In this blogpost we are speaking of Thomas Lowe’s Sandwich Islands. As we know already, from the last Thomas Lowe post, the Sandwich Islands is modern-day Hawaii, and he and…
Read moreA Long Winding Road
A long winding road through history must be travelled before the Hudson’s Bay Company could build a new headquarters, on the southern end of Vancouver’s Island: but it was travelled,…
Read moreUp the Columbia River
In August 1849, clerk Thomas Lowe journeyed up the Columbia River as far as Fort Nez Percés, following the same river route that the York Factory Express had travelled in…
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