Thomas Lowe Crosses the Equator

In 1841, Thomas Lowe sailed on the HBC ship Vancouver, on his way to the HBC’s Pacific coast headquarters, Fort Vancouver. He did not reach that post — but that…
Read moreIn 1841, Thomas Lowe sailed on the HBC ship Vancouver, on his way to the HBC’s Pacific coast headquarters, Fort Vancouver. He did not reach that post — but that…
Read moreIn 1843, young Augustus Peers made his way with Alexis Bonamie dit L’Esperance’s Athabasca boats to Portage La Loche, where he would spend some time at Fort Simpson, McKenzie District.…
Read moreIn our dueling journals — that of John Work, 1823, and of Archibald McDonald, 1828 — we have reached the post of Ile-a-la-Crosse, on Lac Ile-a-la-Crosse. As you know by…
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