Thomas Lowe Rounds the Horn
Thomas Lowe has set sail on the ship, Vancouver, which (in my last blogpost) has just sailed past Falkland Islands on its way southward, sailing through the waters of the…
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Fort Assiniboine was one of many posts along the Athabasca River west of the mouth of the Clearwater River, although most posts on the river were located in the Jasper…
Read moreThomas Lowe sails the Southern Atlantic
Thomas Lowe has survived the traditional shaving that results from crossing the equator on a sailing vessel in 1841, and now has the rounding of Cape Horn, at the southern…
Read moreThomas Lowe Crosses the Equator
In 1841, Thomas Lowe sailed on the HBC ship Vancouver, on his way to the HBC’s Pacific coast headquarters, Fort Vancouver. He did not reach that post — but that…
Read moreThomas Lowe at Sea
Thomas Lowe joined the fur trade of the Hudson’s Bay Company from Scotland in 1841, and set off on his journey to Fort Vancouver, near the mouth of the Columbia…
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