James Birnie, 1826
My great-great-grandfather was a member of the 1826 York Factory Express journey that crossed the Rocky Mountains from the Columbia River to Hudson Bay and return. I have known this…
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In 1841, while he was in charge of Fort Nisqually, Alexander Caulfield Anderson got into a little trouble with Chief Factor John McLoughlin. Anderson had quarreled with a French-Canadian employee,…
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In 1846, Fort Alexandria’s clerk-in-charge, Alexander Caulfield Anderson, received his long expected Commission as Chief Trader in the Honorable Hudson’s Bay Company’s service, 15 years after he first entered the…
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