Simpson at Fort Nisqually
So we are having some fun following Sir George Simpson on his 1841 journey to Fort Nisqually and on to the northwest coast. All this started when I found a…
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As we already know, Dr. John Birkbeck Nevins travelled up the York Factory River (the lower Hayes) with a gentleman who was heading to his Saskatchewan River post. Here is…
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Sometimes, quite by accident, a writer is able to connect one story to another in ways that makes two little stories into a bigger story that is much more important.…
Read more1839 Incoming Express
I know of two people who travelled into the territory west of the Rocky Mountains in the incoming 1839 York Factory Express (now called the Columbia Express.) One man was…
Read moreNancy Marguerite Anderson
I am Nancy Marguerite Anderson; an accidental historian writing the stories of the HBC men who worked west of the Rocky Mountains before 1858 — so many good stories! The…
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