Fort Durham
I am putting this Fort Durham series in front of a few histories that came earlier (ie. Fort Simpson, and the Stikine River story), because Thomas Lowe is approaching the…
Read moreFort McLoughlin’s End
The end of Fort McLoughlin’s reign on the northwest Coast has an interesting twist to it, which includes a sad story about a man I have written about in two…
Read moreAnother Step Forward
On April 22, 1840, Chief Trader James Douglas took another step forward, moving toward the eventual building of the HBC’s Fort Victoria in 1843. This blogpost is a continuation of…
Read morePeace comes to Fort McLoughlin
Peace came to Fort McLoughlin when Donald Manson, the man in charge of the HBC fort, allowed some of the First Nations men who had besieged them into the fort…
Read moreA Long Winding Road
A long winding road through history must be travelled before the Hudson’s Bay Company could build a new headquarters, on the southern end of Vancouver’s Island: but it was travelled,…
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