A Winter Encampment
So let’s continue this young clerk’s journey by dogsled, from the banks of the Pennygataway River where we have left him. He begins his story again, with instructions on how…
Read moreYork Boats on the Saskatchewan
The image above is of a York Boat under sail. When the men who travelled in the outgoing York Factory Express from Fort Vancouver reached Edmonton House, they were absorbed…
Read moreLiard River to Pelly Banks
We are returning to the Liard River, where Robert Campbell has now replaced John McLeod in the newly rebuilt Fort Halkett, on the banks of the Smith River. The year…
Read moreRivière des Roches to Great Slave Lake
The river that flowed north from Athabasca Lake was not the Mackenzie, but the Rivière des Roches, which led boats into the Slave. Somewhere north of Athabasca Lake was the…
Read moreThe HBC Post on the Stikine River, 1834
When Robert Campbell met the Stikine chief, “Shakes,” at the rendezvous in the mountains, he was unaware that Shakes had already frightened off another HBC man who was attempting to…
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