Anderson’s journey continues
Anderson’s journey continues: James Anderson and his party have reached “Beechey Lake,” and are encamped above the five sets of rapids that had led them to into that Lake —…
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James Anderson and James Green Stewart, and their exploring party, has now reached Lake Garry, on the Great Fish River on their way north to the Arctic Ocean in July…
Read moreJames Anderson on the Back River
On July 16, 1855, James Anderson and James Green Stewart continued their journey down the Back River, travelling from Lake Beechy northward, toward the Arctic Ocean. As you already know,…
Read moreJames Anderson’s Mountain Portage
James Anderson’s Map of the southern portion of the Mountain Portage, from Hudson’s Bay Company Archives, E.37/29, and used with their permission. The above map comes from the…
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The musk oxen are unusual animals found in the Barren Grounds of the Northwest Territories, in Northern Canada, and almost no where else. Their relationships are interesting: they are closer…
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