Finan McDonald

Finan McDonald was one of David Thompson’s men, but unlike most of his men he also worked for the Hudson’s Bay Company as a clerk at Spokane House, and later…
Read moreEdward Ermatinger took out the 1827 York Factory Express, and he kept a journal which has been published in Journal of the Royal Society of Canada, in 1912. The nice…
Read moreI am browsing through some of my old records, and I stumbled on some research which will be of interest to many besides me. This research was done many years…
Read moreIn following up another story, I discovered this one on “Indian Mounds” on a river that was supposed to be called the Deschutes, or “Falls River.” This river was supposed…
Read moreJohn Work is on his way west to Spokane House, his destination. In our last John Work post, we left his boats at the bottom end of the Upper Arrow…
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