Thomas Lowe: the London Ship

In our last Thomas Lowe blogpost, we ran with his account of the 1844 Fort Vancouver fire. This was not the only time that a fire threatened Fort Vancouver: there…
Read moreCaptain Henry James Warre, a British officer, and Lieutenant Mervin Vavasour, of the Royal Engineers, visited Forts Vancouver and Victoria in 1845 and 1846. Both Warre and Vavasour presented themselves…
Read moreWilliam Brown was a spear-thrower in my book, The York Factory Express. You will find him mentioned in my book on page 17, when in his Fort St. James journal,…
Read moreThis blogpost is a continuation of the Paul Kane thread, wherein he is travelling out of the territory West of the Rocky Mountains with the Fall Express. The year is…
Read moreHere is the story of how the artist, Paul Kane, made his way up the Columbia River from Fort Colvile to Boat Encampment, traveling with the outgoing York Factory Express…
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