Augustus Peers’s journal
Augustus Peers was the older brother of Henry Newsham Peers, of Forts Langley and Victoria. Henry was a man who made history west of the Rocky Mountains: he will be…
Read moreTwo Canoes: North from Cumberland House
Here is the first of this pair of journals, as two sets of canoes are making their way west to the Columbia, by the old canoe route followed by the…
Read moreAlexis L’Esperance
Alexis L’Esperance appears regularly in the journals of the York Factory Express, but he never is traveling in their boats. His full name is Alexis Bonamie dit L’Esperance — and…
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