Fort Durham rises
And so, in this blogpost, the HBC men under Chief Factor James Douglas have finally found a good location for Fort Durham, which would become the northernmost HBC post on…
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This post is about the Vancouver’s Island fort that will soon be built and, eventually, named Fort Victoria. This series of posts began at https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/locating-fort-victoria/ and it continues on from…
Read moreThe Barlow Road
THIS POST IS UPDATED with more information of interest to Washington State historians — see below. The Barlow Road was a historic wagon road built in 1846 by some American…
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I am putting this Fort Durham series in front of a few histories that came earlier (ie. Fort Simpson, and the Stikine River story), because Thomas Lowe is approaching the…
Read moreJohn O’Brien
I have one man I keep stumbling across: his name is John O’Brien. I found him first when he was mentioned in Thomas Lowe’s York Factory Express journal of 1847.…
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