MargueriteHBC

BCMetisMan, 10 days ago to random

@MargueriteHBC Were a couple of the mountains around Kamloops also named for Jen-Baptiste Leolo? Mt Lolo and Mt. Paul

MargueriteHBC, 19 days ago to random

YORK FACTORY EXPRESS JOURNAL, 1847:
"Most of the boats made two of these trips this evening, and the remainder will be brought up tomorrow.
"Friday. Raining towards evening. This morning the remainder of the pieces were brought up & in course of the day all the cargoes were carried to the upper end of the Portage. Five of the boats were likewise brought up by water, although it is customary, when the River is in its proper state, to take them across the portage. #HistoricJourney #AmWriting

MargueriteHBC, 21 days ago to random

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, AND PERILOUS JOURNEYS OF THE FUR TRADE
#Blogpost
At Fort Nez Perces #WallaWalla the incoming HBC Brigades of 1826 were forced to go to the Indian camps to purchase their own horses for the Brigades, as the gentleman in charge of Fort Nez Perces was unable or unwilling, to secure enough horses -- this was a chore that the gentleman in charge of the brigades did every year afterwards. #HBCHistory #AmWritingHistory #HistoricJourney https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/brigade-ten/

MargueriteHBC, 23 days ago to random

HBC BRIGADES, 1846 EXPEDITION:
"After a short delay we set out at 3.20 pm to cross the portage to Harrison's River via a valley leading southwest. Several branches united to form the principal stream at different points hereabouts: one of these we followed. Road thus far from the end of the lake very good, except that in some spots it is pebbly. Beyond the end of the lake (where there are groves of Columbia Red Fir) vegetation undergoes a change, assuming... #HistoricJourney #AmWritingHistory

MargueriteHBC, 1 month ago to vancouver

HBC BRIGADES JOURNAL, 1828:
"Weather as yesterday till towards evening when excessively heavy rain came on. Busy at the furs but we were stopped by the rain. Some of the New Caledonia packs are not yet opened.
"Wednesday. Overcast, some showers. The unfavourableness of the weather prevented us from doing anything with the furs today.
A week later: "Wednesday. This morning the inland brigade left Fort #Vancouver #WA and encamped in the evening a little.... #HistoricJourney #AmWritingHistory

MargueriteHBC, 2 months ago to random

Introvert here, on Mastodon to avoid having to make a phone call someone asked me to make....

MargueriteHBC, 2 months ago to random

YORK FACTORY EXPRESS JOURNAL, 1827:
"I found Jacques Cardinal, who had come to the Moose Encampment, and brought with him eight horses to help us on our way. He treated me with an excellent supper of mutton, the flesh of Ovis Montana, and regretted he had no spirits to offer me. Pointing to the stream, he jocularly said, "there's my barrel, and it is always running." The kind fellow also afforded me a part of his hut.
"On the next morning the whole party.... #HistoricJourney #AmWritingHistory

MargueriteHBC, 2 months ago to random

DAVID DOUGLAS' YORK FACTORY EXPRESS JOURNAL, 1827:
"Twenty eight miles above this place, where the river takes a sudden bend, and to all appearances is lot in the mountains, a scene of the most terrific grandeur presents itself; the whole torrent is confined to a breadth of thirty five yards, and tossed in rapids, whirlpools, and eddies on both sides are mountains towering to the height of sic or eight thousand feet from their base, rising with rugged.... #HistoricJourney #AmWritingHistory

MargueriteHBC, 3 months ago to random

YORK FACTORY EXPRESS JOURNAL, 1826:
"Fine pleasant weather. Immediately after breakfast we resumed our travels with two Boats and ten men, and descended a long way down the Athabasca River. The banks of this River are very thickly wooded and the current so extremely rapid that a Boat can descend with ease in three days a distance which it requires fourteen to ascend.
"Saturday. We got underway this morning at 3 am. We had descended about four hours when... #HistoricJourney #AmWritingHistory

MargueriteHBC, 3 months ago to random

HBC BRIGADES JOURNAL, 1826:
"Our route was through level country, and at night we encamped a short distance from the Pineau, having baited our Horses at Riviere du Milieu. Distance about 21 Miles. Weather Beautiful.
"Sunday. The road we passed through this morning was excessively bad and fatiguing for the horses, one of which rolled down with his load from a considerable height into the River, but without having received any apparent injury. Allowed the horses... #HistoricJourney #AmWriting

MargueriteHBC, 3 months ago to history

YORK FACTORY EXPRESS BLOGPOST:
In 1846, the artist Paul Kane came out to the west side of the Rocky Mountains. As they passed the three lakes that formed the Committee's Punch Bowl, they stopped to camp on its shoreline. It was a cold cold night. #HBC #History #AmWritingHistory #HisoricJourney https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/paul-kane-8/

MargueriteHBC, 3 months ago to random

YORK FACTORY EXPRESS JOURNAL, 1841:
"He had no sooner received orders than off he started ahead of the party, accompanied by the Doctor & myself (we being, as may readily be supposed, parties interested). During a ride of five hours to the place of encampment, our hunter shot three partridges, a Duck, and a Pigeon, so that we made an excellent supper. It was soon after that meal, when setting down to regale myself with a pipe after the fatigues of the day,... #Historicourney #AmWritingHistory

MargueriteHBC, 3 months ago to random

YORK FACTORY EXPRESS JOURNAL, 1841:
"I therefore before starting got Dr. Tolmie to make over the remainder of the ammunition to the Hunter, whose prowess as a sportsman we had so lately experienced in the afore said goose (which bye the bye he had killed with ball) telling him at the same time if he wished something for supper he would not spare his exertions. We had no sooner received orders than off he started ahead of the party, accompanied by the Doctor... #HistoricJourney #AmWritingHistory

MargueriteHBC, 3 months ago to random

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT AND THE PERILOUS JOURNEYS OF THE FUR TRADE: [to be published in May 2024 by Ronsdale Press, Vancouver, BC]
In the summer of 1847, Alexander Caulfield Anderson's exploring party made their way upriver from Fort Langley, travelling in two canoes to the place they called Kequeloose, six miles or so north of Spuzzum... #Blogpost #BCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/kequeloose-brigade-trail/

MargueriteHBC, 4 months ago to books

HBC BRIGADES JOURNAL, 1826:
"This evening Mr. Dease's people arrived under the direction of Mr. William Kittson. They left Fort Colvile yesterday morning, which place the express forwarded on the 28th Ulto reached only a few minutes before their departure. It will be observed that no assistance in Horses is to be expected from Dease. Indeed it is what I might have expected from the number he has already given. The remainder of the day was occupied.... #HistoricJourney #AmWritingHistory #Books

MargueriteHBC, 4 months ago to random

YORK FACTORY EXPRESS JOURNAL, 1841:
"Fort Colvile is laid out with a neatness which does credit to the taste of their projector -- here and there a band of Cattle to enliven the prospect and at a considerable distance surrounded on all sides by high mountains covered from the base to the summit with beautiful pines. Nor does the inside of the establishment yield in any respect to the exterior, for when seated at table with Mr. and Mrs. McDonald & their family... #HistoricJourney #WAHistory

MargueriteHBC, 4 months ago to books

YORK FACTORY EXPRESS JOURNAL, 1841:
"After a voyage of nine days, during which nothing worth recording took place, we reached Fort #WallaWalla, situated in the midst of a sandy plain upon the Banks of the Columbia, & in charge of my friend Mr. Chief Trader Pambrun, who received us most kindly, and presented us to dinner a couple of fine roast Turkeys -- a rather unexpected sight in this quarter of the world.
"1st. Having arranged everything for my trip on horseback....#HistoricJourney #Books

MargueriteHBC, 4 months ago to random

YORK FACTORY EXPRESS JOURNAL, 1831:
"We arrived at Fort Assiniboine in time to sup with Mr. Grant. Fort Assiniboine is a small establishment situated on the banks of the River Athabasca, and the surrounding country is chiefly composed of thick woods. The river takes its rise in the Rocky Mountains.
"Tuesday. We prepared three canoes for the River Athabasca, up which we were now to steer our course. We set off in the canoes two gentlemen and nine men in each. #HistoricJourney#Canoes #Canoeing

Swede1952, 5 months ago to ilaughed

Merry Christmas. 🎄🎄🎅

2023

I took this photo early this morning with my phone using only the light of the tree. Maybe turning the room lights on would have been a good idea. This Christmas is the first Christmas in a long time that we've had a child in the house, our great-grandchild. Hence the new tree, last year I took a ceramic tree, set it on the table, and said ... done. As you might imagine, most of the gifts under the tree are for him. Hmmm ... it feels strange being a great-grandfather. That's the way the world turns.

“Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!”

• Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #bird #birdwatching #birdphotography #birdsofmastodon #ChristmasMorning #ChristmasTree

Mrfunkedude, 5 months ago to random

I'm taking a break from social media. It's taken over way too much of my life and it's become obvious that I need to take a break and unburden myself of this heavy load that I've created through my own actions.

Be back in... ten minutes? Maybe fifteen?

MargueriteHBC, 6 months ago to books

YORK FACTORY EXPRESS JOURNAL, 1826:
"All the Indians as usual followed us with the Constant Cry of Cynol or Tobacco. Got above the Big Dalles by 1 pm & arrived at the little Dalles and passed them by 2 and at 3 arrived at the Chutes where met with a greater Concourse of of Indians than I ever saw here. They volunteered to Carry the Boats which I permitted as I did not wish to encamp here for fear they might inure the Cattle. After we got everything... #AmWritingHistory #HistoricJourney #Books