Women in the Boats
Here is a question I often get asked (especially by women): how many women and children travelled in the York Factory Express Boats going out of, or coming into, the…
Read moreHere is a question I often get asked (especially by women): how many women and children travelled in the York Factory Express Boats going out of, or coming into, the…
Read moreIn late 1824, a group of HBC men under Chief Factor James McMillan made a boat journey from Fort George [Astoria] to the Fraser River, to find a location for…
Read moreEdward Ermatinger took out the 1827 York Factory Express, and he kept a journal which has been published in Journal of the Royal Society of Canada, in 1912. The nice…
Read more