David Douglas’s Athabasca River
In 1827, botanist David Douglas travelled with the outgoing York Factory Express down the Athabasca River to Jasper’s House. From the height of the Rocky Mountains, as shown above, the…
Read moreIn 1827, botanist David Douglas travelled with the outgoing York Factory Express down the Athabasca River to Jasper’s House. From the height of the Rocky Mountains, as shown above, the…
Read moreLieutenant Henry James Warre was a Royal Engineer who came to the Pacific Slopes, with his companion Lieutenant Mervin Vavasour, on a secret spying mission for the British Government. The…
Read moreJames Douglas was a clerk when he took out the York Factory Express to Hudson Bay in 1835; although he returned to the Columbia District as a Chief Trader, having…
Read moreThe subject of this post is the Athabasca Pass, and the Hudson’s Bay Company men who used this route to reach the Columbia District from the Saskatchewan. In 1826, Aemilius…
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