James 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,…
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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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