Fort Victoria Murderers
I wonder how many people today know that Fort Victoria was built, in part, by a group of five murderers from Fort Stikine? Let me tell you the story. There…
Read moreMerry Christmas
It is Christmas Day at the end of this week, and for the fun of it I am reporting on as many fur trade Christmases as I can find. We…
Read moreFort Taku
Fort Durham, also called Fort Taku, was built by the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1840, on what is called Taku Harbour, in Juneau, Alaska. It only stood for three…
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I have a few favourite characters among the enormous cluster of persons who lived West of the Rockies Mountains in the 1840s. Thomas Lowe is one of them. He was…
Read moreReverend Staines
In 1850, James Robert Anderson, and his older sister, Eliza Charlotte, traveled over the brigade trail from Fort Colvile with their father, Alexander Caulfield Anderson, to attend the school in…
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