James Anderson’s Mountain Portage

James Anderson’s Map of the southern portion of the Mountain Portage, from Hudson’s Bay Company Archives, E.37/29, and used with their permission. The above map comes from the…
Read moreIn 1852, Chief Trader James Anderson (A), who was then in charge of the Athabasca District, made a journey from the district’s headquarters of Fort Simpson, down the Mackenzie River…
Read moreIn May 1852, Chief Trader James Anderson (A), who was then in charge of the Mackenzie River District, made a journey to Fort Good Hope, on the Mackenzie River north…
Read moreSo in July 1851, Robert Campbell reached the Peel’s River Post and began his journey to the Mackenzie River, which he would follow south to Fort Simpson. This year he…
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