Simpson at Fort Nisqually
So we are having some fun following Sir George Simpson on his 1841 journey to Fort Nisqually and on to the northwest coast. All this started when I found a…
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In 1841, Governor Simpson made his way overland, from Red River to the Columbia River headquarters of Fort Vancouver, arriving at that place on August 25. We are beginning this…
Read moreVoyageur Traditions
In spring of every year between 1826 and 1854, the outgoing York Factory Express men arrived at Edmonton House. They left Fort Vancouver, their Pacific coast headquarters on the Columbia…
Read moreJohn McLoughlin in 1841
Fort Vancouver’s Chief Factor, John McLoughlin, had little to do with the building of Fort Victoria, and nothing at all to do with its management, in spite of the fact…
Read moreLocating Fort Albert
In a letter written June 24 1842, to the Governor and Committee of the Hudson’s Bay Company in London, John McLoughlin argued that “In a private note dated Taco 24th…
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