James Birnie and the 1826 York Factory Express
We, who are descendants of James Birnie of Spokane House and Fort Vancouver, have known he went out in the 1826 York Factory Express to Hudson Bay. What we did…
Read moreJames Birnie, 1826
My great-great-grandfather was a member of the 1826 York Factory Express journey that crossed the Rocky Mountains from the Columbia River to Hudson Bay and return. I have known this…
Read moreYork Factory Express: Boat Encampment to Jasper’s House
The journey from Boat Encampment to Jasper’s House is the subject of this blogpost. Jasper’s House was the second post to be built in the Jasper Valley, and it stood…
Read moreFort Colvile to Boat Encampment
In his own York Factory Express journal, George Traill Allan, whose passage from Fort Nez Perces to Fort Colvile is covered in the last “chapter” of this series, wrote a…
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