Connecting Stories
Sometimes, quite by accident, a writer is able to connect one story to another in ways that makes two little stories into a bigger story that is much more important.…
Read more1839 Incoming Express
I know of two people who travelled into the territory west of the Rocky Mountains in the incoming 1839 York Factory Express (now called the Columbia Express.) One man was…
Read moreJoachim Lafleur
Joachim Lafleur worked at Fort Okanogan in the 1840s, when Alexander Caulfield Anderson was in charge of Fort Colvile. In fact, Lafleur was Anderson’s assistant during the Fort Colvile Brigades.…
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So we are going to talk about Governor Simpson at Fort Vancouver, and I will attempt to discover what he did there in the week that he stayed at the…
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In 1841, Governor Simpson made his way overland, from Red River to the Columbia River headquarters of Fort Vancouver, arriving at that place on August 25. We are beginning this…
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