Grande Prairie
Here is another story from the Grande Prairie — yes, that place that we visited just a few short weeks ago. I found the beginnings of this in the little…
Read moreVoyageur Traditions
In spring of every year between 1826 and 1854, the outgoing York Factory Express men arrived at Edmonton House. They left Fort Vancouver, their Pacific coast headquarters on the Columbia…
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In my last post of this series, we left James Anderson and his party of men camped at the exact same spot that Captain George Back had camped at almost…
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Thomas Lowe kept a series of journals of his time at Fort Vancouver, and they contain a great deal of information about the running of that Pacific Coast headquarters. In…
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I was invited to take part in a Voyageur celebration held at Michaud House, in Langley, on May 13, 2023. It was a hot, hot day — the first hot…
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