The Constable
In this post I am going to tell you about one of the first encounters the Constable and the ten members of the Victoria Voltiguers had with their supposed “enemy,”…
Read moreFort Victoria’s Frenchtown
The fact that Fort Victoria had a Frenchtown of sorts was a surprise to me — even more so when I realized that I had resided on this property. True,…
Read moreDouglas’s Royal Navy
This is a continuation of my first and second Royal Navy posts, and will deal with Governor James Douglas and the Royal Navy on the Northwest Coast after 1854. In…
Read moreRoyal Navy at Esquimalt
This is a continuation of my first Royal Navy Ships blogpost, and in this post I will concentrate on those ships that visited Esquimalt Harbour and Fort Victoria in the…
Read moreJames Lowe’s 1853 tour
James Lowe was the younger brother of Thomas Lowe, who in 1849 retired from the Hudson’s Bay Company at Fort Vancouver, and established himself as a store-keeper in Oregon Territory…
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