Crossing Lake Winnipeg
Crossing Lake Winnipeg was almost always challenging, as the lake was shallow and the wind and waves not generally gentle. Nevertheless, it was suddenly time for Augustus Richard Peers to…
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“The breaking forth of spring in this country is more like a dream than a reality,” Augustus Richard Peers wrote. Springtime at Norway House sounds wonderful, does it not? It…
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In 1842, the young Augustus Peers arrived by the London ship at York Factory, and spent his first winter in the HBC fur trade there. Ten years later he wrote…
Read moreNancy Marguerite Anderson
I am Nancy Marguerite Anderson; an accidental historian writing the stories of the HBC men who worked west of the Rocky Mountains before 1858 — so many good stories! The…
Read moreSpring Thaw
As you can guess, it is very difficult to travel via dog sled when the ice on the lakes is melting in springtime. Even the shallow Echimamish River, that crossed…
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