John Charles 2
This post is a continuation of John Charles’s story. I began this story some time ago, as you may remember, and it began with this paragraph: John Charles led out…
Read moreImpossible Journey
When I was doing research some time ago for another book (“The Brigades”), I ran across one man who made an impossible journey through New Caledonia, heading north to the…
Read morePaul Kane leaves Edmonton House
“We remained at Edmonton till the morning of the 6th [October],” Paul Kane wrote, “preparing for the arduous journey which now lay before us.” Paul Kane was travelling west with…
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John Charles led out the York Factory Express to Hudson Bay in 1849. He did not make it home again, but was shot and killed at Campement d’Orignal, or Moose…
Read moreThomas Lowe and the York Factory Express
Thomas Lowe worked for the Hudson’s Bay Company from 1842 to his retirement in 1849, and he kept journals of his experiences in the Columbia district the entire time he…
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