Cumberland House
There is little mention of the York Factory Express and Saskatchewan Brigades passing through Cumberland House in the post journals in the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives. Nevertheless, there is lots…
Read moreTwo Canoes to Kamloops
In our twenty-seventh post in this series, I will bring Governor George Simpson and his party down the North Thompson River to the post at Kamloops — and beyond! So…
Read moreThe New Caledonia brigades head up the Nechako River
So, in 1826 Chief Factor William Connolly and his brigades paddled by the temporarily closed Fort George [Prince George], heading upriver to Fort James. In 1831, Peter Warren Dease stopped…
Read moreThe outgoing New Caledonia brigade
Alexander Caulfield Anderson spent a number of years in the New Caledonia district, the portion of the Columbia district that included Fort Alexandria on the Fraser River (north of Williams…
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