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NO ORDINARY RISKS: EXPLORATIONS FROM HUDSON BAY TO THE ARCTIC SEA
The Sturgeon-Weir River, up which the HBC men now travelled, was filled with rapids and portages which earned it the special name of the Wicked River. #ThreeJourneysNorth #NoOrdinaryRisks #Journeys https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/wicked-river/ -
NO ORDINARY RISKS: JOURNEYS FROM HUDSON BAY TO THE ARCTIC SEA
From Cumberland House, on the #Saskatchewan River, the HBC men take another river route North from that post, travelling to the Churchill River via the Sturgeon-Weir. #Journeys #NoOrdinaryRisks #ThreeJourneysNorth https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/two-canoes-five/ -
NO ORDINARY RISKS: EXPLORATIONS FROM HUDSON BAY TO THE ARCTIC SEA
At Cumberland House, the HBC men who were travelling North left the #Saskatchewan River and began their journey up the rapid-filled Sturgeon-Weir. #Journeys #ThreeJourneysNorth #NoOrdinaryRisks https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/two-canoes-four/ -
NO ORDINARY RISKS: EXPLORATIONS FROM HUDSON BAY TO THE ARCTIC SEA
There are few good descriptions of old Cumberland House -- at least, until Augustus Richard Peers travelled through it in 1842 and described it in his unpublished manuscript. #Journeys #ThreeJourneysNorth #NoOrdinaryRisks https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/cumberland-house/ -
NO ORDINARY RISKS: EXPLORATIONS FROM HUDSON BAY TO THE ARCTIC SEA
Once the Portage la Loche brigades passed the Grand Rapids of the #Saskatchewan River, they made their way upriver to the tiny settlement of #ThePas, and then moved on to Cumberland House, on the Sturgeon-Weir River. #Journeys #ThreeJourneysNorth #NoOrdinaryRisks https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/the-pas-and-cumberland-house/ -
NO ORDINARY RISKS: EXPLORATIONS FROM HUDSON BAY TO THE ARCTIC SEA
The Grand Rapids was an enormous barrier on the #Saskatchewan River, where it flowed into Lake #Winnipeg. However, it was difficult but not particularly dangerous to overcome these rapids. #Journeys #ThreeJourneysNorth #NoOrdinaryRisks https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/grand-rapids/ -
NO ORDINARY RISKS: EXPLORATIONS FROM HUDSON BAY TO THE ARCTIC SEA
The Grand Rapids was an enormous barrier on the #Saskatchewan River, where it flowed into Lake #Winnipeg. However, it was difficult but not particularly dangerous to overcome these rapids. #Journeys #ThreeJourneysNorth #NoOrdinaryRisks https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/grand-rapids/ -
NO ORDINARY RISKS: EXPLORATIONS FROM HUDSON BAY TO THE ARCTIC SEA
The Grand Rapids was an enormous barrier on the #Saskatchewan River, where it flowed into Lake #Winnipeg. However, it was difficult but not particularly dangerous to overcome these rapids. #Journeys #ThreeJourneysNorth #NoOrdinaryRisks https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/grand-rapids/ -
NO ORDINARY RISKS: EXPLORATIONS FROM HUDSON BAY TO THE ARCTIC SEA
The Grand Rapids was an enormous barrier on the #Saskatchewan River, where it flowed into Lake #Winnipeg. However, it was difficult but not particularly dangerous to overcome these rapids. #Journeys #ThreeJourneysNorth #NoOrdinaryRisks https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/grand-rapids/ -
NO ORDINARY RISKS: FROM HUDSON BAY TO THE ARCTIC SEA
On their return journey home from the shores of the Arctic Sea, James Anderson and his men made their way through Lake Garry, and made their way all the way West to long and narrow Beechey Lake. #Journeys #ThreeJourneysNorth #NoOrdinaryRisks #Nunavut #NWT https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/anderson-at-beechy-lake/ -
NO ORDINARY RISKS: FROM HUDSON BAY TO THE ARCTIC SEA
Because of the risks of an early winter trapping them in the North, James Anderson's men were eager to get home and worked so hard that they quickly reached Lake Garry, one of the Sideways Lakes so named by the Inuit people. #Journeys #ThreeJourneysNorth #NoOrdinaryRisks #Nunavut https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/anderson-at-lake-garry/ -
NO ORDINARY RISKS: FROM HUDSON BAY TO THE ARCTIC SEA
In late summer 1855, James Anderson and James Green Stewart began their journey home from the shores of the Arctic Sea, heading south toward Great Slave Lake. They would take a different route home than the one they had used coming North. #Journeys #ThreeJourneysNorth #Nunavut #NoOrdinaryRisks https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/journey-home/ -
NO ORDINARY RISKS: FROM HUDSON BAY TO THE ARCTIC SEA
West of Montreal Island, in Chantrey Inlet, lay the Adelaid Peninsula which reached far North into the Arctic Sea. In 1855, James Anderson and his men walked the shores of this huge peninsula, looking for signs of Sir John Franklin's lost men. #Journeys #ThreeJourneysNorth #Nunavut #NoOrdinaryRisks https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/adelaide-peninsula/ -
NO ORDINARY RISKS: FROM HUDSON BAY TO THE ARCTIC SEA
In the centre of Chantrey Inlet lay Montreal Island, a place where Sir John Franklin's lost men were known to have been. Ot would be James Anderson's job to search the island and its adjacent lands for signs of those long lost men. #Journeys #NoOrdinaryRisks #Nunavut #ThreeJourneysNorth https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/montreal-island/ -
NO ORDINARY RISKS: FROM HUDSON BAY TO THE ARCTIC SEA
From Lake Franklin, at the North end of the Great Fish River, James Anderson had his men made the short journey downriver to the shores of Chantrey Inlet, a deep Northern inlet which formed a part of the Arctic Sea. #Journeys #ThreeJourneysNorth #Nunavut #NoOrdinaryRisks https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/james-anderson-14/ -
NO ORDINARY RISKS: FROM HUDSON BAY TO THE ARCTIC SEA
In 1855, James Anderson and his men travelled by canoe through Lake McDougall, one of the Sideways Lakes along the Great Fish River, on his journey North to the Arctic Sea in search of Sir John Franklin's men. #Journeys #ThreeJourneysNorth #NoOrdinaryRisks #Nunavut https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/james-anderson-12/ -
NO ORDINARY RISKS: FROM HUDSON BAY TO THE ARCTIC SEA
In 1855, James Anderson and James Green Stewart lead their men through the three Sideways Lakes (so named by the Inuit), and tumble through the vicious Hawk Rapids, named for the birds that nested above the river. #ThreeJourneysNorth #Journeys #NoOrdinaryRisks #Nunavut https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/james-andersons-journey-9/ -
NO ORDINARY RISKS: FROM HUDSON BAY TO THE ARCTIC SEA
James Anderson and James Green Stewart continued their journey along the Great Fish River, travelling from Beechey Lake toward the Arctic Sea some hundreds of miles distant. They are now in modern-day Nunavut. #Nunavut #Journeys #ThreeJourneysNorth #NoOrdinaryRisks https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/james-andersons-journey-8/