Fort Durham to Sitka & beyond
“At two in the afternoon,” Sir George Simpson said, “we reached Taco, an establishment conducted by Dr. [John Frederick] Kennedy, with an assistant and twenty-two men. Here the little harbour…
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“This very neat establishment was planned in 1837, by Mr. [Duncan] Finlayson, of Red River,” Simpson said of Fort McLoughlin in his book, An Overland Journey Round the World. Finlayson…
Read moreThomas Lowe at Fort Vancouver
On June 15, 1843, Thomas Lowe arrived at Fort Vancouver, about ninety miles upriver from the mouth of the Columbia, after having served both at the northwest coast post of…
Read moreFort Durham’s Closure
Clerk 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 moreFort Durham Dustup
What 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…
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