New Caledonia posts
There are quite a few historic posts in what the HBC called New Caledonia, and also on the northwest coast. In this post, I am going through these historic posts…
Read moreAccident to the Beaver
In 1850, the Chilkat First Nations, who lived in Lynn Canal, did not cross Chilkat Pass into the Yukon River on their annual trading expedition with the Northern Tutchone [Selkirk…
Read moreCape Disappointment
I am exploring what happened when Henry James Warre came to the Columbia district in August 1845, travelling in with Peter Skene Ogden. There were some very interesting conversations going…
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 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…
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