Spring 1845 at Fort Vancouver
Thomas Lowe’s journal is the only source of information that I have at the moment, on what was happening at Fort Vancouver in Spring and early Summer of 1845. He…
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Here is another story from the Grande Prairie — yes, that place that we visited just a few short weeks ago. I found the beginnings of this in the little…
Read moreWilliam Sinclair Jr.
William Sinclair Jr was one of the most interesting men to work west of the Rocky Mountains, but it took me a long time to put his story together —…
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The end of Fort McLoughlin’s reign on the northwest Coast has an interesting twist to it, which includes a sad story about a man I have written about in two…
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