Hayes River Posts
In 1826, when the first York Factory Express men descended the Hayes River from Norway House to York Factory, they passed through only one Hayes River post: Oxford House. That…
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 —…
Read moreBits and Pieces
Lately, in my research in other quarters, I have been running across bits and pieces of other gentlemen’s York Factory Express journals. None of them are long enough, nor interesting…
Read moreThe Back River
In this blogpost I am continuing the story of the journey that James Anderson and James Green Stewart made to the Arctic Ocean in summer 1855. James Anderson was Chief…
Read morePaul Kane’s “Big Hill”
So in 1846, Paul Kane and the few remaining men of the incoming York Factory Express spent their night trying to keep warm at their encampment on the shores of…
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