Publication of “The York Factory Express”
A simple announcement: The publication of The York Factory Express has been delayed for six months or so, but it is now being completed, as the person who is doing…
Read moreThe Back River
In this blogpost I am continuing the story of the journey that James Anderson and James Green Stewart made to the Arctic Ocean in summer 1855. James Anderson was Chief…
Read moreDescending the Columbia River
I thought that for this series on the Columbia River, I might be able to access and read Samuel Black’s journal of his descent of the river in 1825. He…
Read moreBuilding Fort McLoughlin
And so the Hudson’s Bay Company men have arrived in McLoughlin Bay, in what the HBC men on the coast called Milbanke Sound, on the North West Coast. They have…
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The subject of this post is the Athabasca Pass, and the Hudson’s Bay Company men who used this route to reach the Columbia District from the Saskatchewan. In 1826, Aemilius…
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