Up the Athabasca River to Jasper’s House
This is the eighteenth leg of the York Factory Express stream, and today we are travelling up the Athabasca River to Jasper’s House, west of Fort Assiniboine. Interestingly, in some…
Read moreThe Athabasca Portage North from Edmonton House
In this York Factory Express post (the Seventeenth in this series) I am going to comment on Edward Ermatinger’s 1827 incoming Express (called the Columbia Express), as they cross over…
Read moreYork Factory Express: Fort Pitt and West
The men of the incoming York Factory Express have now arrived at Fort Pitt, on the North Saskatchewan River. They have, by this time, been away from their home post…
Read moreYork Factory Express: Carlton House to Fort Pitt
Between Carlton House and Fort Pitt, the gentlemen in the incoming York Factory Express always hunted for bison on the prairies between the two forts. George Traill Allan passed through…
Read moreJames McDougall
As I do my last *personal* edits of my York Factory Express book, I am attempting to determine which of the two McDougall brothers traveled west in the 1826 York…
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