Sir George to Fort William
So, in this post Sir George Simpson, Governor of the HBC, tumbles down the French River, and will get as far as Fort William, on Lake Superior. The year is…
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We are continuing Sir George Simpson’s travels from Lachine to Red River in 1841. In our last post we reached and paddled past Chats Falls, on the Ottawa River. As…
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In 1841, the newly-minted Sir George Simpson travelled from England to Canada, and then on to Red River by the traditional route to Ruperts Land. As we know, that route…
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So we are going to talk about Governor Simpson at Fort Vancouver, and I will attempt to discover what he did there in the week that he stayed at the…
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