Robert Birnie
Robert Birnie was the son of James Birnie, of the NWC and HBC. He was born in “Oregon [Country] in the year 1824, 7th February, place now called Astoria, it…
Read moreJames Birnie, Alexander Caulfield Anderson, and Reverend Herbert Beaver
In this section of the James and Charlot Birnie thread, we left Birnie’s story as he and his family were sailing south from his posting at Fort Simpson in 1836.…
Read moreTwo Canoes: To Athabasca Pass
In the eighteenth post in the Two Canoes series, at https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/two-canoes-eighteen/ John Work and Peter Skene Ogden traveled through Jasper Valley to the Grande Traverse on the Whirlpool River, where…
Read moreTwo Canoes: To Trout Lake
This, the nineteenth post of this series, is the continuation of Governor Simpson’s journey west to New Caledonia in 1828. The author of the journal is Archibald McDonald, who is…
Read moreTwo Canoes: Jasper Valley
In October 1823, John Work and Peter Skene Ogden are making their way west from York Factory, on Hudson Bay, to their new employment on the Pacific slopes. For Work…
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