Thomas Lowe: the London Ship

In our last Thomas Lowe blogpost, we ran with his account of the 1844 Fort Vancouver fire. This was not the only time that a fire threatened Fort Vancouver: there…
Read moreThis blogpost is a continuation of the Paul Kane thread, wherein he is travelling out of the territory West of the Rocky Mountains with the Fall Express. The year is…
Read moreHere is the story of how the artist, Paul Kane, made his way up the Columbia River from Fort Colvile to Boat Encampment, traveling with the outgoing York Factory Express…
Read moreAt the very end of August, 1834, the HBC ship, Dryad, carrying Peter Skene Ogden, William Fraser Tolmie, Dr. Alexander Kennedy, and all the other men who were employed at…
Read moreNo, I am not running off with John Tod of Kamloops: I am just telling you that there will be no blogpost this day, partly because I am so exhausted…
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