Fort Norman Stories
“Fort Norman, though not classed among the head posts of the district, is nevertheless a good fur trading post,” Augustus Peers wrote, “and in good years may vie with many…
Read morePeers at Fort Norman
Richard Augustus Peers has spent his winter of 1843-44 at Fort Simpson, on the Mackenzie River, but now it is time for him to leave. “It had been determined that…
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So, we are back to Robert Campbell’s journals, which are found in the B.C. Archives. In 1851, Robert Campbell continued his journey up the Mackenzie River from Fort Norman to…
Read moreRivière des Roches to Great Slave Lake
The river that flowed north from Athabasca Lake was not the Mackenzie, but the Rivière des Roches, which led boats into the Slave. Somewhere north of Athabasca Lake was the…
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