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…
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James Green Stewart kept a journal of his voyage by the Great Fish River to the shores of the Arctic Sea. It is very interesting to see what he wrote,…
Read moreJames Anderson’s Journey part 2
So, in our last post in this series (which we are just beginning) I left Chief Trader James Anderson A, making his way up the Mackenzie River from Fort Simpson…
Read moreRivière des Roches to Great Slave Lake
The river that flowed north from Athabasca Lake was not the Mackenzie, but the Rivière des Roches, which led boats into the Slave. Somewhere north of Athabasca Lake was the…
Read moreTwo Canoes: the Athabasca River
In 1823, John Work and Peter Skene Ogden traveled west to the Columbia District by the Athabasca River and Fort Assiniboine. Thus far, they are not paddling (or in this…
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