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THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
When Alexander Anderson came into the Columbia district with the incoming York Factory Express, he heard the story of an Indigenous man who had himself buried alive in the same grave dug for his deceased and beloved son. Was it one story or two? #YorkFactoryExpress #Journeys #WestOfTheMountains https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/buried-alive/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
When Alexander Anderson came into the Columbia district with the incoming York Factory Express, he heard the story of an Indigenous man who had himself buried alive in the same grave dug for his deceased and beloved son. Was it one story or two? #YorkFactoryExpress #Journeys #WestOfTheMountains https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/buried-alive/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
When Alexander Anderson came into the Columbia district with the incoming York Factory Express, he heard the story of an Indigenous man who had himself buried alive in the same grave dug for his deceased and beloved son. Was it one story or two? #YorkFactoryExpress #Journeys #WestOfTheMountains https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/buried-alive/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
When Alexander Anderson came into the Columbia district with the incoming York Factory Express, he heard the story of an Indigenous man who had himself buried alive in the same grave dug for his deceased and beloved son. Was it one story or two? #YorkFactoryExpress #Journeys #WestOfTheMountains https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/buried-alive/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
When Alexander Anderson came into the Columbia district with the incoming York Factory Express, he heard the story of an Indigenous man who had himself buried alive in the same grave dug for his deceased and beloved son. Was it one story or two? #YorkFactoryExpress #Journeys #WestOfTheMountains https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/buried-alive/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
In 1823, HBC clerks John Work and Peter Skene Ogden ended their long canoe journey across the continent at #Spokane House, near the banks of the Columbia River. Though it was three years before the York Factory Express was created, they had followed the same routes for much of their crossing. #Journeys #YorkFactoryExpress #WestOfTheMountains https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/two-canoes-twenty-six/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
In 1823, HBC clerks John Work and Peter Skene Ogden ended their long canoe journey across the continent at #Spokane House, near the banks of the Columbia River. Though it was three years before the York Factory Express was created, they had followed the same routes for much of their crossing. #Journeys #YorkFactoryExpress #WestOfTheMountains https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/two-canoes-twenty-six/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
In 1823, HBC clerks John Work and Peter Skene Ogden ended their long canoe journey across the continent at #Spokane House, near the banks of the Columbia River. Though it was three years before the York Factory Express was created, they had followed the same routes for much of their crossing. #Journeys #YorkFactoryExpress #WestOfTheMountains https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/two-canoes-twenty-six/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
In 1823, HBC clerks John Work and Peter Skene Ogden ended their long canoe journey across the continent at #Spokane House, near the banks of the Columbia River. Though it was three years before the York Factory Express was created, they had followed the same routes for much of their crossing. #Journeys #YorkFactoryExpress #WestOfTheMountains https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/two-canoes-twenty-six/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
In 1823, HBC clerks John Work and Peter Skene Ogden ended their long canoe journey across the continent at #Spokane House, near the banks of the Columbia River. Though it was three years before the York Factory Express was created, they had followed the same routes for much of their crossing. #Journeys #YorkFactoryExpress #WestOfTheMountains https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/two-canoes-twenty-six/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
Two long and narrow lakes lay along the length of the Columbia River: the upper Arrow Lake, and the lower. The waters of the lakes have both been raised by modern-day dams, but in the years before the dams existed the two lakes were connected by a narrow river that ran through both of them. #YorkFactoryExpress #Journeys #BritishColumbia https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/arrow-lakes/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
Two long and narrow lakes lay along the length of the Columbia River: the upper Arrow Lake, and the lower. The waters of the lakes have both been raised by modern-day dams, but in the years before the dams existed the two lakes were connected by a narrow river that ran through both of them. #YorkFactoryExpress #Journeys #BritishColumbia https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/arrow-lakes/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
Two long and narrow lakes lay along the length of the Columbia River: the upper Arrow Lake, and the lower. The waters of the lakes have both been raised by modern-day dams, but in the years before the dams existed the two lakes were connected by a narrow river that ran through both of them. #YorkFactoryExpress #Journeys #BritishColumbia https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/arrow-lakes/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
Two long and narrow lakes lay along the length of the Columbia River: the upper Arrow Lake, and the lower. The waters of the lakes have both been raised by modern-day dams, but in the years before the dams existed the two lakes were connected by a narrow river that ran through both of them. #YorkFactoryExpress #Journeys #BritishColumbia https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/arrow-lakes/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
Two long and narrow lakes lay along the length of the Columbia River: the upper Arrow Lake, and the lower. The waters of the lakes have both been raised by modern-day dams, but in the years before the dams existed the two lakes were connected by a narrow river that ran through both of them. #YorkFactoryExpress #Journeys #BritishColumbia https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/arrow-lakes/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
In 1823, John Work came into the territory west of the Rocky Mountains in the years before the York Factory Express every existed. Yet he travelled in the same boats that the HBC had always used on the Columbia, and he described the same river they came down. #YorkFactoryExpress #Journeys #WestOfTheMountains https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/twentieth-leg/

YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
In 1823, John Work and Peter Skene Ogden crossed the country to Athabasca Pass, and travelled down the Columbia River in the unique Columbia boats always used in this part of the world. #YorkFactoryExpress #Journeys #WestOfTheMountains https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/two-canoes-twenty-four/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BY, 1826-1849
The artist Paul Kane travelled west with the incoming York Factory Express, travelling down the Big Hill on the west side of the Rocky Mountains, to Boat Encampment, on the Big Bend of the Columbia River. #Journeys #YorkFactoryExpress #WestOfTheMountains https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/paul-kane-8/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
The height of land that the HBC men used to cross the Rocky Mountains was Athabasca Pass, at the western end of the Whirlpool River as it flowed toward #Jasper's House. In 1826, Aemilius Simpson described the pass and the lakes that lay in the middle of it. #Journeys #YorkFactoryExpress #HBCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/athabasca-pass/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
The men who travelled incoming York Factory Express made their way across the Rocky Mountains into the Columbia district, following the Columbia River south from Boat Encampment, all the way to their Fort Vancouver headquarters. #WestOfTheMountains #YorkFactoryExpress #Journeys https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/nineteenth-leg/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
In 1823, John Work and Peter Skene Ogden made their way down the Big Hill to the Big Bend of the Columbia River west of the Rockies, where they met the men who would bring them in boats down to #Spokane House. #Journeys #YorkFactoryExpress https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/two-canoes-twenty-two/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
The HBC men always called Yellowhead Pass the Leather Pass, because they generally received their supply of leather from #Edmonton House through this pass. However, the name only appeared in private writings and never in official correspondence, and so many people do not believe that story. #Journeys #YorkFactoryExpress #HBCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/leather-pass/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY
In 1846, the artist Paul Kane leaves #Jasper's House on his way to cross the Rocky Mountains into the Columbia district, via Athabasca Pass. It is late in the year, and snow and cold is now their enemy. Will they make it? #Journeys #YorkFactoryExpress #WestOfTheMountains https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/paul-kane-7/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
The men in the incoming York Factory Express paddle up the Athabasca River to #Jasper's House, on their way home to the Columbia River and Fort #Vancouver #WA #Journeys #YorkFactoryExpress #Alberta #HBCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/eighteenth-leg/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
In the late winter of 1846, the artist Paul Kane finally reaches #Jasper's House with the men of the incoming York Factory Express, hoping to cross the Rocky Mountains before the snow flies. #Journeys #YorkFactoryExpress #HBCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/paul-kane-6/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
Birchbark canoes carried the early North West Company traders everywhere, but they were delicate boats and needed a lot of tender care. #Journeys #YorkFactoryExpress #ThreeJourneysNorth #HBCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/birchbark-canoes/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
On their long journey to their future home of #Spokane House, John Work and Peter Skene Ogden travelled up the Athabasca River toward #Jasper's House and the east side of the Rocky Mountains. #Journeys #YorkFactoryExpress #Alberta https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/two-canoes-sixteen/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
In 1823, John Work and Peter Skene Ogden travelled up the Athabasca River toward #Jasper's House, three years before the formation of the York Factory Express occurred, but travelled the same route that the Express would in future follow. #Journeys #YorkFactoryExpress #Athabasca #HBCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/two-canoes-twelve/

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
Alexis Bellanger's story is well known even today. As he was bringing the boats upriver, a First Nations man shot him from the river bank near #Quesnel, and he died at Fort Alexandria. #Journeys #Writing #History #YorkFactoryExpress https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/alexis-bellanger/