Bits and Pieces
Lately, in my research in other quarters, I have been running across bits and pieces of other gentlemen’s York Factory Express journals. None of them are long enough, nor interesting…
Read morePaul Kane reaches Edmonton
In our continuing York Factory Express journal, we are following Paul Kane across the continent, from Norway House to the Columbia District. At the moment he is just arriving at…
Read morePaul Kane’s Buffalo Hunt
Paul Kane is now leaving Carlton House, on horseback, with some of the gentlemen of the incoming Columbia Brigades. The year is 1846, and Mr. Rundell is Reverend Robert Terrill…
Read moreThe York Factory Express for Booksellers
The annual York Factory Express journey to Hudson Bay, and its return as the Columbia Express, was unique to the Hudson’s Bay Company’s fur trade west of the Rocky Mountains…
Read moreFort Pitt
Fort Pitt was a provisioning post, constructed in 1829-31, 217 miles downriver from Edmonton House. Before this post was built, the men of the outgoing Saskatchewan Brigades (which included…
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