The incoming Brigades pass through the Cascade Mountains
The two brigades leaving Fort Vancouver for the interior have had different experiences at Portage Neuf, a cluster of islands and rapids upriver from Fort Vancouver, and a few miles…
Read moreJames Birnie and the 1826 York Factory Express
We, who are descendants of James Birnie of Spokane House and Fort Vancouver, have known he went out in the 1826 York Factory Express to Hudson Bay. What we did…
Read moreMeasles in the Columbia district, summer to fall 1847
In my first book, The Pathfinder, I wrote a little of the measles epidemic in the Columbia district, that finally reached Fort Alexandria [in central British Columbia] in January 1848.…
Read moreWaiilatpu Massacre
From my first book, The Pathfinder, I post the brief introduction to the 1847 measles epidemic in the Columbia district and New Caledonia [British Columbia], that eventually resulted in the…
Read moreFort Nez Perces to Fort Vancouver with the New Caledonia brigade
Chief Factor William Connolly and his brigades arrived at Fort Nez Perces (Walla Walla) on Friday, June 9, 1826. He departed soon after he had arranged with Chief Trader Sam…
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