Columbia Express
As we know, if you have purchased and read my book, The York Factory Express, the proper name for the incoming Express was the Columbia Express — although some people…
Read moreGeorge Traill Allan
In 1841, George Traill Allan took out the York Factory Express to Hudson Bay, ten years after he had come into the territory in the 1831 Columbia Express. He is…
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Thomas Lowe worked for the Hudson’s Bay Company from 1842 to his retirement in 1849, and he kept journals of his experiences in the Columbia district the entire time he…
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In the Thirty-Sixth Report of the Okanagan Historical Society’s Annual Report, I found this short little notice re: Henry Shuttleworth. It said: Shuttleworths of Okanagan Falls Information furnished by Mrs.…
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Who was Dugald Mactavish, who took over Fort Vancouver after Peter Skene Ogden’s death in 1854? Bruce McIntyre Watson, in his book “Lives Lived,” tells us he was born in…
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