The Canadians
In 1820-21, George Simpson (not yet Governor Simpson) spends his first winter in the HBC at Fort Wedderburn, on an island in Athabasca Lake. But this story begins even before…
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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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I have a new journal for you. This is a journal that I did not intend to look at, but I am very happy I did. I have always been…
Read moreWilliam Brown, and other stories
William Brown was a spear-thrower in my book, The York Factory Express. You will find him mentioned in my book on page 17, when in his Fort St. James journal,…
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