The HBC ship Cadboro
It is November 1844, and we are continuing Thomas Lowe’s stories of the happenings at Fort Vancouver, the HBC headquarters near the mouth of the Columbia River — one hundred…
Read moreFort Victoria’s Missing Years
There are a few missing years in Fort Victoria’s early history: mainly between Summer 1844, when the Fort Victoria well was discovered, and 1846, when the Fort Victoria journals…
Read moreWest Coast Christmas
Even in the early days on the west coast of North America, the HBC men celebrated Christmas in much the same way as they had done at home, that is,…
Read moreFort Victoria Well
Fort Victoria had a number of places from which they could get the water they needed for the new post. However, the first summer they were there was a summer…
Read moreHBC Ships in the Pacific
I have accidentally discovered that some of the HBC ships that ran up and down the Pacific Coast were larger than I expected them to be! As you see in…
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