Carlton House to Fort Pelly
Sometimes the outgoing gentlemen travelled from Carlton House to Fort Pelly on their way to Red River to attend the annual meeting of the Company. In 1841, George Traill Allan…
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In most of the York Factory Express journals I managed to collect, the Annual Council Meeting for the Hudson’s Bay Company was held in Norway House. That meant that the…
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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…
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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…
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As a fur trade descendant, I have always called the northern pass through the mountains “Leather Pass.” Today this is officially known as the Yellowhead, which comes from its original…
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