THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
In 1826, the HBC Brigades from #FortStJames make their way down the North River to the little post at Kamloops, where they will pause their journey for a day or so. #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades
THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
In 1828, governor George Simpson rode over the HBC Brigade trail from #FortStJames to #Kamloops. Here he and his party reaches the banks of the North River, just north of Kamloops itself. #TheHBCBrigades #Journeys buff.ly/dAKTrrn
THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
From Drowned Horse Lake, the outgoing HBC Brigades make their way up the Mountain and down the other side to their encampment on the banks of the North River. #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades
THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
Why did they call this stretch of the HBC Brigade trail *the mountain?* It becomes obvious when you drive a car that has little power--the horses knew it was a mountain, but we could not see it. #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades
THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
From Fort Alexandria, on the Fraser River, the HBC Brigades continued their journey, now travelling eastward toward the North Thompson River, but stopping at Drowned Horse Lake. #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades
THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
There is a lot of history in the piece of grassland that Williams Lake residents call the Dairy Fields. It is a place where First Nations lived, and where the men of the HBC Brigades rode. #TheHBCBrigades #Journeys
THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
In 1828, Governor George Simpson decided to explore the length of the Fraser River from #Kamloops to #FortLangley, searching for a river route for the HBC Brigades. #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades
THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
From Fort George #PrinceGeorge, at the mouth of the Nechako River, the men of the outgoing HBC brigades make their way south, down the Fraser, to Fort Alexandria. #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades
THE HBC BRIGADES: CULURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
The old Brigade trail led from Fort St James south to Kamloops by various trails which disappeared as soon as the new trails were created. But parts of the old trail still exist. #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades
THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
Fort St. James was a thousand miles north of Fort #Vancouver #WA, yet the HBC men in the north were able to bring out their goods. more or less successfully, by the historic old Brigade Trail. #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades
THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
Over the years there were many HBC Brigade trails around the territory West of the Rockies. Here are a few of them. As you can see, you can find them almost everywhere. #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades
THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
Over the years there were many different HBC posts in the west, but unlike other territories they remained in the same place over time, for the most part, and rarely closed down. #HBCHistory #TheHBCBrigades
THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
On their way into and out of their northern New Caledonia district, the HBC men paddled past many posts, new and old, along the Peace River. #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades
THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
The HBC Brigades began from its northern headquarters of #FortStJames. In 1826, the new Governor, George Simpson, decided to change the way that the HBC men brought out their furs. #TheHBCBrigades #Journeys
THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
In the last days of December 1824, the men of James McMillan's expedition to the Fraser River from the mouth of the Columbia finally return to their home post, wet and cold. #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades
THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
The HBC men under James McMillan finally reached the banks of Fraser's River, and explored a little, talking to the First Nations men and admiring the weaving of the Coast Salish women. #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades
THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
Unable to make their way around Point Roberts to the mouth of the Fraser River, James McMillan and his men followed an old Indigenous trail up a narrow creek to future Fort Langley. #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades
THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
The HBC men under James McMillan have travelled north from the mouth of the Columbia River to Puget Sound, and now they begin their journey north up the sound toward the Fraser River. #TheHBCBrigades #Journeys
THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
In 1824, James McMillan and his party of men set out from Fort George #Astoria, on his way north to the Fraser River which he was to explore for the location of a new fort. #FortLangley #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades
THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
I was better able to determine the exact locations of where old Fort Alexandria stood over the years, and by closely reading the journals (which are not easy to read), I was able to figure it all out! #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades
THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
In 1821, the HBC took over the land that was controlled by the North West Company, but for a few years nothing much changed. Here are a few of the things that current historians understood of that time. #TheHBCBrigades
THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
In 1813, Nor'Wester John Stuart took out the first brigades to the mouth of the Columbia River--it was a full year before he would return to his northern district around #FortStJames. #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades
THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
In 1805, and later, Fort St. James was the headquarters of the northern inland section of the territory west of the Rocky Mountains, and its leader, John Stuart, led out the few first brigades. #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades
THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
The Barlow Road was the first road in Oregon to be built by the new settlers, and in 1849, retiring HBC clerk Thomas Lowe rode over the road and described it (not correctly, as it happens). #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades
THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
In 1849, retiring clerk Thomas Lowe makes his way up the Columba River to Fort Nez Perces #WallaWalla, following the route of the outgoing HBC Brigades. #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades #YorkFactoryExpress
THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
In 1849, the HBC men rode up a gully called Collin's Gulch, and reached the top of the Tulameen Plateau on their way to both Forts Hope and #FortLangley, on the lower Fraser River. #TheHBCBrigades #Journeys
THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
Joachim Lafleur was a long time resident of the territory and worked for many years at Fort #Okanagan, where he was known to have a peculiar quirk: he was scared of snakes! #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades
THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
Chief Factor John Lee Lewes came from a family that was involved with the theatre in London, and the HBC men thought him the "fop" of the fur trade. #TheHBCBrigades #Journeys
THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
In 1848, Peter Skene Ogden reported to the Governor and Council on the effects of the #California gold-rush on the #Oregon Country and Fort #Vancouver #WA #TheHBCBrigades #Journeys
THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
In summer 1848, Henry Newsham Peers kept the journal of the incoming Brigades that travelled from #FortLangley, on the Fraser River, to Fort #Kamloops, on the Thompson River. #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades
