Peter 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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In 1820, Governor locum tenans George Simpson and his Athabasca brigades arrived at Fort Superior, the HBC post on Lac Ile-a-la-Crosse, and departed it once more for the North. The…
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In 1843, Augustus Richard Peers made his way north by the Sturgeon-Weir River and the Churchill, to the Ile-a-la-Crosse post on Lac Ile-a-la-Crosse. There he met Roderick McKenzie’s wife and…
Read moreThe Pas and Cumberland House
HBC clerk Augustus Peers continues his journey west and north, from Cedar Lake on the Saskatchewan River, to the Pas and Cumberland House, the latter of which stands on Cumberland…
Read moreRapid River to Cedar Lake
Rapid River was the name of the short piece of the Saskatchewan River, that extends westward from the horseshoe bay at the mouth of the river, on Lake Winnipeg, to…
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