Warre and Vavasour’s Report
I am perusing Warre and Vavasour’s Report of their Military Reconnoissance in Oregon over the winter of 1845-46, and finding it very interesting. The fun part of reports and records…
Read moreThe Similkameen Post
The HBC’s Similkameen post was not constructed until spring, 1860, yet it is very much a part of BC’s fur trade history, and, interestingly, of my own family’s history as…
Read moreWarre’s York Factory Express Journal
The two British spies, Henry James Warre and Mervin Vavasour, left the Columbia district in the outgoing York Factory Express of March, 1846. We have Henry Warre’s York Factory Express…
Read moreThe Missionaries
The HBC men had been settled at Fort Vancouver, on the banks of the Columbia River, for decades before the first of the Missionaries came west to establish permanent settlements…
Read moreConnolly’s Brigades and McLeod’s Express
In 1826, the expresses and brigades had different, but similar experiences as they passed through the range of mountains that separated the Pacific Coast from the interior of what is…
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