HBC Ships in the Pacific
I have accidentally discovered that some of the HBC ships that ran up and down the Pacific Coast were larger than I expected them to be! As you see in…
Read moreJohn McLoughlin in 1842
This blog post is a continuation of https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/john-mcloughlin/ which post addressed what happened to Chief Factor John McLoughlin, of Fort Vancouver, in 1841. You will remember that we ended that…
Read moreConstructing Fort Victoria
There is actually very little information on the actual work of constructing Fort Victoria, on the southern coast of the HBC’s Vancouver’s Island, and Roderick Finlayson’s journals may give us…
Read moreThomas Lowe at Fort Vancouver
On June 15, 1843, Thomas Lowe arrived at Fort Vancouver, about ninety miles upriver from the mouth of the Columbia, after having served both at the northwest coast post of…
Read moreLeaving Lachine
All of the North West Company men, and many of the HBC men, entered Rupertsland via the system of rivers that led from Lachine, on the St. Lawrence River, to…
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