David Douglas’s Athabasca River

In 1827, botanist David Douglas travelled with the outgoing York Factory Express down the Athabasca River to Jasper’s House. From the height of the Rocky Mountains, as shown above, the…
Read moreIn 1827, botanist David Douglas travelled with the outgoing York Factory Express down the Athabasca River to Jasper’s House. From the height of the Rocky Mountains, as shown above, the…
Read moreSo in 1846, Paul Kane and the few remaining men of the incoming York Factory Express spent their night trying to keep warm at their encampment on the shores of…
Read moreArtist Paul Kane was not impressed with the little post of Jasper’s House, but, fortunately for him, the incoming York Factory Express did not remain at the post for long.…
Read moreIn the eighteenth post in the Two Canoes series, at https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/two-canoes-eighteen/ John Work and Peter Skene Ogden traveled through Jasper Valley to the Grande Traverse on the Whirlpool River, where…
Read moreThe journey from Boat Encampment to Jasper’s House is the subject of this blogpost. Jasper’s House was the second post to be built in the Jasper Valley, and it stood…
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