Stewart’s Journal 3
It is time to pick up James Green Stewart’s journal once more, and to follow what he has to say of the shared expedition North to the shores of the…
Read moreAnderson on Montreal Island
The year is 1855, and James Anderson and his party of men, which includes James Green Stewart, have paddled down the Back, or Great Fish River. On August 1 they…
Read moreThe Mountain Portage, continued.
We ended my last blogpost at the door-like cut in the rocks called Rae’s Falls, at the end of Anderson’s Barnston Lake. Today, this is McLellan Lake, and it is…
Read moreJames Anderson’s Journey part 3
In this post we are following James Anderson as he and his party paddled across Great Slave Lake, heading north from Fort Resolution to McLeod Bay. At this point he…
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