Beaver in the South Atlantic
In this post, the Steamer Beaver, and the HBC ship Columbia, are travelling together on a course to the South Atlantic Ocean and beyond. As the transcribed copy of the…
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In 1841, Thomas Lowe sailed on the HBC ship Vancouver, on his way to the HBC’s Pacific coast headquarters, Fort Vancouver. He did not reach that post — but that…
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Thomas Lowe joined the fur trade of the Hudson’s Bay Company from Scotland in 1841, and set off on his journey to Fort Vancouver, near the mouth of the Columbia…
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