Simpson to Cumberland House

In August 1820, Governor locum tenans George Simpson had come upriver in canoes, from Rock Depot to Norway House, where the men of the Athabasca Brigades would load the remainder…
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This is the sixth article in this series: two canoe journeys on the Upper Churchill River, on their way to Ile-a-la-Crosse and beyond. Both groups of canoes are on their…
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