Paul Kane’s “Big Hill”
So in 1846, Paul Kane and the few remaining men of the incoming York Factory Express spent their night trying to keep warm at their encampment on the shores of…
Read moreFort McLoughlin
Fort McLoughlin was a Hudson’s Bay Company post, built on what the HBC men called “Milbanke Sound,” on the Northwest Coast, in 1833. Alexander Caulfield Anderson had only just arrived…
Read moreThe Mountain Portage, continued.
We ended my last blogpost at the door-like cut in the rocks called Rae’s Falls, at the end of Anderson’s Barnston Lake. Today, this is McLellan Lake, and it is…
Read moreThomas Lowe sails the South Pacific
At last, as you can see from the last post of this series, Thomas Lowe has sailed from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific, rounding Cape Horn during its summer…
Read morePaul Kane leaves Jasper’s House
Artist Paul Kane was not impressed with the little post of Jasper’s House, but, fortunately for him, the incoming York Factory Express did not remain at the post for long.…
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