Charles John Griffin
I first ran into Charles John Griffin in the York Factory Express journals of 1849, when he came into the country West of the Rocky Mountains with John Charles’s incoming…
Read moreYork Factory Express, Norway House and the Crossing of Lake Winnipeg
On their arrival at Norway House, east of Lake Winnipeg, the men of the returning York Factory Express (now called the Columbia Express) knew they had completed the most difficult…
Read moreEdmonton House
Edmonton House was built in 1795 on the North bank of the North Saskatchewan, but it moved many times over the years as the local fire-wood supplies were used up.…
Read moreChilcotin Post
The Chilcotin post, first built in 1829 as a temporary post and completed at a later date, stood at the junction of the Chilco and Chilcotin Rivers and was an…
Read moreProvisioning the York Factory Express
I am writing about the York Factory Express — the annual journey the traders from the West side of the Rocky Mountains made to the HBC headquarters on Hudson Bay…
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