Jason Allard’s Stories of his Father
Jason Ovide Allard grew up in the HBC, at Forts Langley and Yale. His father was a Canadien named Ovid Allard, who had several Indigenous wives. Jason’s mother was an…
Read moreCarlton to Red River
In most of the York Factory Express journals I managed to collect, the Annual Council Meeting for the Hudson’s Bay Company was held in Norway House. That meant that the…
Read moreThe Tin Canoe
James Evans was a Methodist missionary who set up the mission at Norway House as the result of a conversation with Governor George Simpson. According to the Dictionary of Canadian…
Read moreThe York Factory Express, Introduction
Welcome to the York Factory Express, and its many stories of Scottish traders and Métis voyageurs and others who travelled across the continent in the Express boats. This is my…
Read moreJohn Warren Dease
Two Dease brothers worked on the west side side of the Rocky Mountains: Peter Warren Dease, and John Warren Dease. Peter is quite well known as an explorer; John not…
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