George Barnston

My tweets a little while ago were this: We commenced our Journey across the Portage at 10 a.m., our Party consisting of Messrs James McMillan, James Birnie, George Barnston, Sinclair,…
Read moreSo, in 1826 Chief Factor William Connolly and his brigades paddled by the temporarily closed Fort George [Prince George], heading upriver to Fort James. In 1831, Peter Warren Dease stopped…
Read moreIn the twenty-first post in this series, we will follow Sir George Simpson from McLeod Lake [Trout Lake Post] to Fort St. James. His journey to the Trout Lake Post…
Read moreThis, the nineteenth post of this series, is the continuation of Governor Simpson’s journey west to New Caledonia in 1828. The author of the journal is Archibald McDonald, who is…
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