Simpson to Athabasca Pass
We return, once more, to Governor George Simpson’s journey out of the Columbia District in 1825. There are some very interesting things that happened on this journey to Red River,…
Read moreLeaving the Columbia
I find Sir George Simpson’s book, An Overland Journey Round the World, an interesting read, partly because of what he says of the reasons he made the plans for the…
Read moreSimpson at Fort Nisqually
So we are having some fun following Sir George Simpson on his 1841 journey to Fort Nisqually and on to the northwest coast. All this started when I found a…
Read more1839 Incoming Express
I know of two people who travelled into the territory west of the Rocky Mountains in the incoming 1839 York Factory Express (now called the Columbia Express.) One man was…
Read moreJoachim Lafleur
Joachim Lafleur worked at Fort Okanogan in the 1840s, when Alexander Caulfield Anderson was in charge of Fort Colvile. In fact, Lafleur was Anderson’s assistant during the Fort Colvile Brigades.…
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