James Sinclair’s letters
I am looking at my collection of information, and realizing that much of it will never make it into any book I am writing or can write in the near…
Read moreRobert Birnie
Robert Birnie was the son of James Birnie, of the NWC and HBC. He was born in “Oregon [Country] in the year 1824, 7th February, place now called Astoria, it…
Read moreJames Birnie, Alexander Caulfield Anderson, and Reverend Herbert Beaver
In this section of the James and Charlot Birnie thread, we left Birnie’s story as he and his family were sailing south from his posting at Fort Simpson in 1836.…
Read moreCollin’s Gulch
In 1849, Deputy-Governor Eden Colvile traveled into the New Caledonia by the Peace River route. As he said in his letter to Sir J. H. Pelly, written from Fort Victoria…
Read moreTwo Canoes: To Fort St. James, Stuart’s Lake
In the twenty-first post in this series, we will follow Sir George Simpson from McLeod Lake [Trout Lake Post] to Fort St. James. His journey to the Trout Lake Post…
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