Connecting Stories
The American distributor for Ronsdale Press Books is Independent Publishers Group. Both The HBC Brigades: Culture, Conflict, and Perilous Journeys of the Fur Trade, and The York Factory Express: Fort…
Read moreThomas Lowe, 1844
Thomas Lowe kept a series of journals of his time at Fort Vancouver, and they contain a great deal of information about the running of that Pacific Coast headquarters. In…
Read moreThomas Lowe: the London Ship
In our last Thomas Lowe blogpost, we ran with his account of the 1844 Fort Vancouver fire. This was not the only time that a fire threatened Fort Vancouver: there…
Read moreShipping at Fort Vancouver
It is time to write a little more about Thomas Lowe’s experiences at Fort Vancouver, and so we will now do it. We have just come through the Fort Vancouver…
Read moreJohn Tod and me
No, I am not running off with John Tod of Kamloops: I am just telling you that there will be no blogpost this day, partly because I am so exhausted…
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