The Railway vs the Express
Everything ends. Even the York Factory Express, that ran for twenty-six years across the Rocky Mountains to Edmonton House, came to a sudden, crashing, end. Surprisingly, its death was caused…
Read moreAlexis L’Esperance
Alexis L’Esperance appears regularly in the journals of the York Factory Express, but he never is traveling in their boats. His full name is Alexis Bonamie dit L’Esperance — and…
Read moreYork Factory Express, Carlton, Cumberland and Norway Houses
In this post, the York Factory Express men are on their way to Norway House, their next destination. In 1847, Fort Vancouver’s clerk Thomas Lowe began his journey from Carlton…
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