Check out the first day of the @hbcdonald account's posting of a "real time" diary of life at a HBC outpost in 1817. There will be daily updates starting today until June of next year.
Follow along and watch how the year unfolds.
Master Donald McPherson (@[email protected])
Wind S.W. Blowing a gale. I arrived here about 10 Clock this morning with 14 Men in two Boats, with a little supply of Trading Goods for the Service of this District, I found a Mr.Buck a Canadian Clerk) here acting for your Honors - placed in a small House, formerly occupied by two of the NW Company Servants, but had been here as Freemen, these I I years back. They went with the Right Honorable the Earl of Selkirk to Red River Settlement in the month of June last [1/6]