Polar Bears
Yes, Dave-In-Eden, I CAN tell you some polar bear stories! And these stories are even from York Factory, or the original once-living bear in the story came from there. Augustus…
Read moreThe Orkney Islands
“It is the lot and duty of every man to seek a profession,” Augustus Richard Peers wrote from Peel’s River House [later Fort McPherson] in the early 1850’s. “Some there…
Read moreLondon Ship to York Factory
I thought I would have nothing more to say of the London ships, but I was wrong. I found, in the B.C. Archives, a delicious journal written by Augustus Richard…
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