Peter Fidler’s Journal
Although this post is a continuation of Peter Skene Ogden’s story at Ile-a-la-Crosse, we are following Peter Fidler’s Journal of 1810-1811 to see what happened at the HBC post at…
Read moreSimon McGillivray Jr.
On September 22, 1820, George Simpson noted that “Messrs. [Jonas] Oxley & [George Peter] Andries have arrived” at Fort Wedderburn, “also Messrs. [Aulay] McAulay & [Amable] Grignon; the latter Gentlemen…
Read morePeter Skene Ogden
Peter Skene Ogden is the next gentleman to be placed in charge of Fort St. James, New Caledonia. He arrived at the post in 1835, but there is not a…
Read moreFort Wedderburn
In 1820, locum tenans Governor George Simpson reaches Fort Wedderburn, after a long and difficult journey North with the HBC’s Athabasca Brigades. The date is September 20. On the evening…
Read moreSimpson to Cumberland House
In August 1820, Governor locum tenans George Simpson had come upriver in canoes, from Rock Depot to Norway House, where the men of the Athabasca Brigades would load the remainder…
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