Ogden at Green Lake
So let us continue Peter Skene Ogden’s story of his time in the North West Company in the years before 1821, when the two companies merged. In the first post…
Read moreStewart’s Journal 6
I ended the last section of James Green Stewart’s journal at Sussex Lake, on the return journey of the Arctic Expedition to the Sea in search of Sir John Franklin’s…
Read moreThe Canadians
In 1820-21, George Simpson (not yet Governor Simpson) spends his first winter in the HBC at Fort Wedderburn, on an island in Athabasca Lake. But this story begins even before…
Read moreSimon McGillivray Jr.
On September 22, 1820, George Simpson noted that “Messrs. [Jonas] Oxley & [George Peter] Andries have arrived” at Fort Wedderburn, “also Messrs. [Aulay] McAulay & [Amable] Grignon; the latter Gentlemen…
Read morePeter Skene Ogden
Peter Skene Ogden is the next gentleman to be placed in charge of Fort St. James, New Caledonia. He arrived at the post in 1835, but there is not a…
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