The Road Crew
I sometimes work with a researcher who does not listen, and it becomes very difficult to have to explain, once again, that the information he/she is presenting me is not…
Read moreTwo Canoes: to Dunvegan
In this post we will continue with Governor Simpson’s journey west by the Peace River. In the last post they stopped at Fort Vermilion, “where we found Mr. Paul Fraser…
Read moreNew Caledonia brigade moves north from Round Lake
In this fifteenth leg of the New Caledonia Brigades’ journeys by the Old Brigade Trail to Fort Vancouver and return, I will bring the brigades north from Round Lake, which…
Read more“Eatables”
As George Traill Allan made his way down the Jasper Valley at the head of the outgoing York Factory Express party, he wrote these words in his journal: About 8…
Read moreTwo Canoes: The Peace River
So Governor George Simpson has reached Fort Chipewyan, on Athabasca Lake, on his way west via the Peace River in 1828. His traveling companion is Archibald McDonald, who is on…
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