Stewart’s Journal 5
In 1855, James Green Stewart is travelling South from Chantrey Inlet with James Anderson, after an eight day visit on the shores of the Arctic Sea. They are hoping…
Read morePortage La Loche
In 1843, Augustus Richard Peers made his way north by the Sturgeon-Weir River and the Churchill, to the Ile-a-la-Crosse post on Lac Ile-a-la-Crosse. There he met Roderick McKenzie’s wife and…
Read moreHistoric Posts in the West
So lets do a fun post about the Historic Posts in the West: that is, posts on the West side of the Rocky Mountains. The Peel’s River post (Fort McPherson)…
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 moreJames Anderson on Chantrey Inlet
As we know, James Anderson, his clerk James Green Stewart, and their men, are making their way down the Great Fish River to the Arctic Ocean, in search of evidence…
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