Fort Simpson
Fort Simpson, on the Northwest Coast, was built by Peter Skene Ogden and his men after the Russian fur traders had turned them away from the mouth of the Stikine…
Read moreA Long Winding Road
A long winding road through history must be travelled before the Hudson’s Bay Company could build a new headquarters, on the southern end of Vancouver’s Island: but it was travelled,…
Read morePaul Kane on the Columbia River
In this post on Paul Kane’s journey to the Pacific Slopes (otherwise known as the west side of the Rocky Mountains), we are leaving Boat Encampment and making our way…
Read moreImpossible Journey
When I was doing research some time ago for another book (“The HBC Brigades”), I ran across one man who made an impossible journey through New Caledonia, heading north to…
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…
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