Waiilatpu Massacre
From my first book, The Pathfinder, I post the brief introduction to the 1847 measles epidemic in the Columbia district and New Caledonia [British Columbia], that eventually resulted in the…
Read moreCharles John Griffin
I first ran into Charles John Griffin in the York Factory Express journals of 1849, when he came into the country West of the Rocky Mountains with John Charles’s incoming…
Read moreAlexis L’Esperance
Alexis L’Esperance appears regularly in the journals of the York Factory Express, but he never is traveling in their boats. His full name is Alexis Bonamie dit L’Esperance — and…
Read moreThe Historic Hayes River
Once they left York Factory, built where the Hayes River flowed into Hudson Bay, the York Factory Express men followed up the “York Factory River” towards home. (The York Factory…
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In 1842, Alexander Caulfield Anderson led the York Factory Express to Hudson Bay. As always, the express men descended the Saskatchewan River to Lake Winnipeg, and two or three months…
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