THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
Once they had crossed Lake #Winnipeg, the men of the homecoming York Factory Express made their way up the #Saskatchewan River to Cumberland House. #Journeys #YorkFactoryExpress #HBCHistory #Manitoba https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/thirteenth-leg/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
From Norway House, on Playgreen Lake, the homecoming men of the York Factory Express made their way around Mossy Point and crossed Lake Winnipeg, if the weather was good. #Journeys #YorkFactoryExpress #HBCHistory #MBHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/twelfth-leg/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
The historic Hayes River is the river that brings the#Saskatchewan brigades to and from York Factory. There were many landmarks and difficult passages up and down the river, and I had to know everything about all of them! #Journeys #YorkFactoryExpress #HBCHistory #MBHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/hayes-river/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
On November 19, 1824, the newly built Norway House was destroyed by fire--and Governor George Simpson decided that a new post should be built, but not on the same location. This was a post that was visited by all the York Factory Express men. #Journeys #YorkFactoryExpress #HBCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/norway-house-fire/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
The landmarks along the Echimamish River were less noticeable than those along the Hayes, but they were muddier and shallower and much more annoying to travel over! #HBCHistory #Journeys #YorkFactoryExpress https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/landmarks-on-the-echimamish-river/

THREE JOURNEYS NORTH TO THE ARCTIC SEA:
Both the York Factory Express, and the Portage la Loche Brigades passed through Cumberland House, and sometimes they described the place. Here is the descriptions given by the leaders of the Express, as they reached Cumberland House. #Journeys #ThreeJourneysNorth #YorkFactoryExpress https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/cumberland-house/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
Many were the landmarks on the upper Hayes River, but we would not know what they looked like and why they were given their names if it were not for the English explorers who also travelled over them. #MBHistory #Journeys #YorkFactoryExpress https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/landmarks-hayes-river-2/

THREE JOURNEYS NORTH TO THE ARCTIC SEA:
The Grand Rapid was an enormous barrier on the #Saskatchewan River, but in spite of its reputation it was a safe place to travel either up or down the river, as long as the boat was only half-loaded. There were no dangerous rapids here, as would be met on the upper part of the river. #Journeys #YorkFactoryExpress #ThreeJourneysNorth #HBCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/grand-rapids/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
In 1823, longtime HBC clerk John Work made his way from York Factory, travelling with an ex-NWC man named Peter Skene Ogden. I don't know if these two men were ever friends, but the air does not seem friendly as the beginning of their relationship. #HBCHistory #Journeys #YorkFactoryExpress https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/tenth-leg/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
There are more stories of the York Factory River--that is, the stretch of river that flows from the bottom of the Big Hill on Hayes River, to Hudson Bay and York Factory itself. #Journeys #YorkFactoryExpress #HBCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/more-on-the-york-factory-river/