Women in the Boats 2

This is the second instalment of my blogpost of last week, and I am still telling the stories of the women who travelled in the York Factory Express boats and…
Read moreThis is the second instalment of my blogpost of last week, and I am still telling the stories of the women who travelled in the York Factory Express boats and…
Read moreClerk Thomas Lowe finally arrived at Fort Durham (sometimes called Fort Taku) in April 1842, and his letters now tell the story of what happened at this turbulent northwest coast…
Read moreWhat stories the HBC men had to tell of Fort Durham dustups, or conflicts with the First Nations people that surrounded it! It seems that every HBC man who…
Read moreI have one man I keep stumbling across: his name is John O’Brien. I found him first when he was mentioned in Thomas Lowe’s York Factory Express journal of 1847.…
Read moreI seem to be writing a lot about cannibalism, and will do more — especially as this book I am working on now has just a little bit to do…
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