Cornovia Postcards (Old)Wooden Head, Big Bend Highway, British Columbia, c.1940s - Byron Harmon RPPC
Nancy Marguerite AndersonYORK FACTORY EXPRESS JOURNAL, 1826:
"Weather very cold, 6 feet of snow along the water edge. Breakfasted below the Crooked Rapid. The men we have with us who used to pass here in spring say they never saw so much snow as there is this year. The ice is yet as it was in winter in some places. We passed piles today at the water edge, 10 feet high. Encamped half Day's March below the Portage #BoatEncampment #BC
"Thursday. Hard frost last night. Proceeded.... #BCHistory #BritishColumbia #Books
"Weather very cold, 6 feet of snow along the water edge. Breakfasted below the Crooked Rapid. The men we have with us who used to pass here in spring say they never saw so much snow as there is this year. The ice is yet as it was in winter in some places. We passed piles today at the water edge, 10 feet high. Encamped half Day's March below the Portage #BoatEncampment #BC
"Thursday. Hard frost last night. Proceeded.... #BCHistory #BritishColumbia #Books
YORK FACTORY EXPRESS JOURNAL, 1827:
"Fine weather. Left the Portage #BoatEncampment between 9 and 10 am, and having travelled with a swift current all day encamped at half before 6 about 5 miles below the Dalles des Morts. Killed a fine fat Bear today.
"12th Thick fog all day. We were on the water before 5 am. Entered the first Lake #UpperArrowLake at 4 am. Paddled thro' the first lake, down the Columbia River and encamped a little way before the second Lake... #BritishColumbia #History #Books
"Fine weather. Left the Portage #BoatEncampment between 9 and 10 am, and having travelled with a swift current all day encamped at half before 6 about 5 miles below the Dalles des Morts. Killed a fine fat Bear today.
"12th Thick fog all day. We were on the water before 5 am. Entered the first Lake #UpperArrowLake at 4 am. Paddled thro' the first lake, down the Columbia River and encamped a little way before the second Lake... #BritishColumbia #History #Books
YORK FACTORY EXPRESS JOURNAL, 1831:
"We remained here #BoatEncampment till the 10th, when Mr. Heron, Chief Trader, made his appearance from Fort Colvile with two boats. Then ordering back the horses to Klyne's House #Jasper we embarked on the far famed Columbia, which runs here with tremendous velocity. We reached Fort Colvile, Mr. Heron's headquarters, in about four days. The Fort is most delightfully situated in a a beautiful plain surrounded by high lands.. #HBC #History #SpokaneWA #WAHistory
"We remained here #BoatEncampment till the 10th, when Mr. Heron, Chief Trader, made his appearance from Fort Colvile with two boats. Then ordering back the horses to Klyne's House #Jasper we embarked on the far famed Columbia, which runs here with tremendous velocity. We reached Fort Colvile, Mr. Heron's headquarters, in about four days. The Fort is most delightfully situated in a a beautiful plain surrounded by high lands.. #HBC #History #SpokaneWA #WAHistory
