Henry Newsham Peers’ Journal
James, son of Alexander Caulfield Anderson, described Henry Newsham Peers — who kept the journal of the incoming 1848 brigade — as a man of “quite a gay temperament, handsome…
Read moreYork Factory Express, Carlton, Cumberland and Norway Houses
In this post, the York Factory Express men are on their way to Norway House, their next destination. In 1847, Fort Vancouver’s clerk Thomas Lowe began his journey from Carlton…
Read moreAnderson’s Tree
In 1846, the British and American governments negotiated the placement of the new Boundary line through Hudson’s Bay Company lands west of the Rocky Mountains. The HBC’s governor, George Simpson,…
Read moreFort Assiniboine to Edmonton House via York Factory Express
I ended my last York Factory Express journal with John Charles’ journey from Jasper’s House to Fort Assiniboine, on the Athabasca River, in 1849. He had a long and difficult…
Read moreFort Colvile to Boat Encampment
In his own York Factory Express journal, George Traill Allan, whose passage from Fort Nez Perces to Fort Colvile is covered in the last “chapter” of this series, wrote a…
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