NO ORDINARY RISKS: EXPLORATIONS FROM HUDSON BAY TO THE ARCTIC SEA
In summer 1855, James Anderson and James Green Stewart, and their crew of hardy paddlers, made their way down the Great Fish River, reaching Lake Pelly (one of the Sideways Lakes), on their way North to the shores of the Arctic Sea. #Journeys #NoOrdinaryRisks #ThreeJourneysNorth https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/james-anderson-10/
Nancy Marguerite Anderson
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THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
I fell into Michel Kaonassé's story long before I knew that he played an important role in the York Factory Express in the late 1840s. He was #Indigeous, being Iroquois, and was always a favorite of mine. #YorkFactoryExpress #Journeys #WAHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/michel-kaonasse/ -
NO ORDINARY RISKS: EXPLORATIONS FROM HUDSON BAY TO THE ARCTIC SEA
In 1885, James Green Stewart and James Anderson made their way down the Great Fish River toward the Arctic Ocean, passing through long and narrow Beechey Lake where they rescued a deer and her fawn. #Journeys #ThreeJourneysNorth #NoOrdinaryRisks https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/james-andersons-journey-9/ -
THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
In 1847, the Indigenous people who lived on the Columbia plateau near #WallaWalla and elsewhere, were infected by measles. Many died, and those who survived the contagious disease took their revenge on the missionaries who they thought had caused the infestation. #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades #WAHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/waiilatpu-massacre/ -
NO ORDINARY RISKS: EXPLORATIONS FROM HUDSON BAY TO THE ARCTIC SEA
In July 1855, James Anderson and James Green Stewart continued their long canoe journey down the Back, or Great Fish River, to the Arctic Sea, to begin their search for Sir John Franklin's Lost Men. #Journeys #NoOrdinaryRisks #ThreeJourneysNorth https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/james-andersons-journey-8/ -
THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
Henry Shuttleworth came into the territory with the incoming York Factory Express, and he also travelled throughout the territory with the Brigades, where at #FortLangley he got into trouble with James Douglas. #BCHistory #Journeys #YorkFactoryExpress https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/henry-shuttleworth/ -
NO ORDINARY RISKS: EXPLORATIONS FROM HUDSON BAY TO THE ARCTIC SEA
On his way down the Barren Grounds of the Great Fish River (sometimes called the Bac River), James Anderson and his men found some unusual animals grazig on the grass and flowers on the river banks. These were the Musk Oxen. #Journeys #NoOrdinaryRisks #ThreeJourneysNorth https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/musk-ox/ -
THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
One of the most life-changing occurrences on the Columbia River was the measles epidemic that came North with the Indigenous people who visited Sutters post, in #California, in 1846 and 1847. #WAHistory #TheHBCBrigades #Journeys https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/measles-1847/ -
NO ORDINARY RISKS: EXPLORATIONS FROM HUDSON BAY TO THE ARCTIC SEA
James Anderson and his team of men who were paddling North down the Great Fish River (sometimes called the Back River), continued their journey to the shores of the Arctic Sea, in search of signs of Sir John Franklin's lost men. #Journeys #NoOrdinaryRisks #ThreeJourneysNorth https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/james-andersons-journey-7/