Peace comes to Fort McLoughlin
Peace came to Fort McLoughlin when Donald Manson, the man in charge of the HBC fort, allowed some of the First Nations men who had besieged them into the fort…
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And so the Hudson’s Bay Company men have arrived in McLoughlin Bay, in what the HBC men on the coast called Milbanke Sound, on the North West Coast. They have…
Read moreJames Birnie, 1828-1836
James Birnie had joined the free wheeling North West Company in 1818, and when in 1821 it merged with the Hudson’s Bay Company under the latter’s name, he came with…
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