Crossing Lake Winnipeg
Crossing Lake Winnipeg was almost always challenging, as the lake was shallow and the wind and waves not generally gentle. Nevertheless, it was suddenly time for Augustus Richard Peers to…
Read moreNorway House Spring
“The breaking forth of spring in this country is more like a dream than a reality,” Augustus Richard Peers wrote. Springtime at Norway House sounds wonderful, does it not? It…
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As we already know, Dr. John Birkbeck Nevins travelled up the York Factory River (the lower Hayes) with a gentleman who was heading to his Saskatchewan River post. Here is…
Read more1839 Incoming Express
I know of two people who travelled into the territory west of the Rocky Mountains in the incoming 1839 York Factory Express (now called the Columbia Express.) One man was…
Read moreVoyageur Traditions
In spring of every year between 1826 and 1854, the outgoing York Factory Express men arrived at Edmonton House. They left Fort Vancouver, their Pacific coast headquarters on the Columbia…
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