Warre and Vavasour
Captain Henry James Warre, a British officer, and Lieutenant Mervin Vavasour, of the Royal Engineers, visited Forts Vancouver and Victoria in 1845 and 1846. Both Warre and Vavasour presented themselves…
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Lieutenant Henry James Warre was a Royal Engineer who came to the Pacific Slopes, with his companion Lieutenant Mervin Vavasour, on a secret spying mission for the British Government. The…
Read morePaul Kane on the Columbia River
In this post on Paul Kane’s journey to the Pacific Slopes (otherwise known as the west side of the Rocky Mountains), we are leaving Boat Encampment and making our way…
Read moreJames Sinclair’s letters
I am looking at my collection of information, and realizing that much of it will never make it into any book I am writing or can write in the near…
Read moreJames Birnie, Alexander Caulfield Anderson, and Reverend Herbert Beaver
In this section of the James and Charlot Birnie thread, we left Birnie’s story as he and his family were sailing south from his posting at Fort Simpson in 1836.…
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