James Anderson on the Back River 1

So James Anderson and James Green Stewart and their men have now reached the headwaters of the Great Fish River, and will begin their journey north to the Arctic Ocean.…
Read moreSo James Anderson and James Green Stewart and their men have now reached the headwaters of the Great Fish River, and will begin their journey north to the Arctic Ocean.…
Read moreAs I am reading through the Fort Selkirk post journals, I realized the HBC men at that post are building a York Boat. From scratch! Now, this is interesting! So…
Read moreIn 1847, HBC trader Alexander Hunter Murray built Fort Yukon on the Yukon River, just inside the boundaries of what was then Russian Territory, on the instructions of Chief Factor…
Read moreBefore we join Robert Campbell in his journey down the Yukon River, we will need to digress from Campbell’s explorations, and speak of the founding of Fort Yukon. This, from…
Read moreMy last blogpost covered the HBC attempt to build a post on the lower Stikine River. They failed, and Peter Skene Ogden returned to Fort Simpson, on the Nass River,…
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