James Anderson’s Journey part 2
So, in our last post in this series (which we are just beginning) I left Chief Trader James Anderson A, making his way up the Mackenzie River from Fort Simpson…
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James Anderson’s journey took him all the way north from Fort Simpson to the Arctic Ocean in 1855. Anderson’s journey began at the Hudson’s Bay Company post which he has…
Read moreRivière des Roches to Great Slave Lake
The river that flowed north from Athabasca Lake was not the Mackenzie, but the Rivière des Roches, which led boats into the Slave. Somewhere north of Athabasca Lake was the…
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