James Green Stewart
James Green Stewart kept a journal of his voyage by the Great Fish River to the shores of the Arctic Sea. It is very interesting to see what he wrote,…
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So lets do a fun post about the Historic Posts in the West: that is, posts on the West side of the Rocky Mountains. The Peel’s River post (Fort McPherson)…
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I have one man I keep stumbling across: his name is John O’Brien. I found him first when he was mentioned in Thomas Lowe’s York Factory Express journal of 1847.…
Read morePierre Pambrun Jr.
There is, of course, always more to the stories I write! I looked at the index in the HBRS book, London Correspondence Inward from Eden Colvile, 1849-1852, and found this,…
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