Salmon Chief
I have been chasing a story–the story of the Salmon Chief. I found a beginning to this story in a manuscript I am reading for another author. Well, that’s not…
Read moreSimpson to Fort Durham
“This very neat establishment was planned in 1837, by Mr. [Duncan] Finlayson, of Red River,” Simpson said of Fort McLoughlin in his book, An Overland Journey Round the World. Finlayson…
Read moreHome from Fort Simpson
At the very end of August, 1834, the HBC ship, Dryad, carrying Peter Skene Ogden, William Fraser Tolmie, Dr. Alexander Kennedy, and all the other men who were employed at…
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The work of building the new Fort Simpson continued, with clerk James Birnie keeping the post journal and taking overall charge of building the new post on the northwest coast,…
Read moreFort Simpson
Fort Simpson, on the Northwest Coast, was built by Peter Skene Ogden and his men after the Russian fur traders had turned them away from the mouth of the Stikine…
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