Rat’s Lodge
It is time for me to tell you the story of the Rat’s Lodge, as the British explorer, George Back, heard it from his guide, Maufelly in 1834–ten years before…
Read moreNorway House Spring
“The breaking forth of spring in this country is more like a dream than a reality,” Augustus Richard Peers wrote. Springtime at Norway House sounds wonderful, does it not? It…
Read moreAnderson to Clinton Colden Lake
Chief Trader James Anderson, his clerk James Green Stewart, and his small party of men, have made their way south from the Arctic Ocean, hoping to reach Great Slave Lake…
Read moreYork Factory
In 1842, the young Augustus Peers arrived by the London ship at York Factory, and spent his first winter in the HBC fur trade there. Ten years later he wrote…
Read moreBoat Encampment
The year is 1824, and Governor George Simpson is coming to visit the Columbia district for the first time. His next stop will be at Boat Encampment, on the Big…
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