Paul Kane at Jasper’s House
So, we just left Paul Kane watching as Montrose McGillivray punished a voyageur for stealing provisions of pemmican made with berries. The incoming York Factory Express party is travelling up…
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What shall I write about today? A question often asked, and almost always answered. Lets do John Work’s journal, as he travels up the Athabasca River west of newly constructed…
Read moreUp the Athabasca River to Jasper’s House
This is the eighteenth leg of the York Factory Express stream, and today we are travelling up the Athabasca River to Jasper’s House, west of Fort Assiniboine. Interestingly, in some…
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