Stewart’s Journal
This post is a continuation of James Green Stewart’s Journal, which records his journey northward from Carlton House to the shores of the Arctic Sea. The previous post recorded Stewart’s…
Read moreSimpson’s Travels
We are continuing Sir George Simpson’s travels from Lachine to Red River in 1841. In our last post we reached and paddled past Chats Falls, on the Ottawa River. As…
Read moreThe Cossack
Who are the Cossacks? This group of warriors originated in the 15th century in Zaporizhzhia, a city in southeast Ukraine formerly known as Aleksandrovsk, or Oleksandrivk. The city was founded…
Read moreSimpson in Russia
So Sir George Simpson and his friend, the mysterious McIntyre, have reached Russia after a long ship journey west from Sitka to Okhotsk, on the shores of the Sea of…
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So, this is a continuation of the last post, that is https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/mysterious-mcintyre/ It sure would be fun to crack this mystery and figure out who the man was who accompanied…
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