Otter skins
This story has on odd beginning: you would not think that a story about Otter Skins would have anything to do with the construction of a fur trade fort, would…
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This post is a continuation of John Charles’s story. I began this story some time ago, as you may remember, and it began with this paragraph: John Charles led out…
Read morePierre Pambrun Jr.
There is, of course, always more to the stories I write! I looked at the index in the HBRS book, London Correspondence Inward from Eden Colvile, 1849-1852, and found this,…
Read moreReverend Staines
In 1850, James Robert Anderson, and his older sister, Eliza Charlotte, traveled over the brigade trail from Fort Colvile with their father, Alexander Caulfield Anderson, to attend the school in…
Read moreSaskatchewan Horses
Did you know that the HBC men west of the Rocky Mountains imported horses from the Saskatchewan district to increase the number of horses in their own district? They did…
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