THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
Birchbark canoes were occasionally used on some legs of the long journey between the two HBC posts, Fort Vancouver and York Factory. However, their bark was fragile and they were easily damaged, and were not the best boats for the work they had to do. #Journeys #YorkFactoryExpress https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/birchbark-canoes/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
In 1823--three years before the York Factory Express was created--John Work and Peter Skene Ogden continued their journey up the Athabasca River from Fort Assiniboine to #Jasper's House, following the traditional trail into the territory west of the Rocky Mountains. #YorkFactoryExpress #Journeys #HBCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/two-canoes-sixteen/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
In 1823, John Work and Peter Skene Ogden made their way up the Athabasca River toward the Rocky Mountains, following a path that would lead them to Fort Assiniboine, which was just being constructed. The York Factory Express did not yet exist, but this river route was an early version of it. #Journeys #YorkFactoryExpress #HBCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/two-canoes-twelve/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
Tiny Fort Assiniboine stood on the banks of the Athabasca River, at a place where the river dipped south toward #Edmonton House, on the North #Saskatchewan River. John Work first described this place as it was being built in 1823. #Journeys #YorkFactoryExpress #HBCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/fort-assiniboine/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
The artist Paul Kane, who is travelling west with the incoming York Factory Express, leaves #Edmonton House on his way to the Athabasca River, over a muddy horse trail that will lead the expressmen to Fort Assiniboine. #Journeys #YorkFactoryExpress #HBCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/paul-kane-5/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
George Barnston joined the HBC in 1826 and travelled across the continent from York Factory to Fort Vancouver with the incoming York Factory Express of 1826. He worked at Fort Nez Perces #WallaWalla and at Fort Langley, on the lower Fraser River. #Journeys #YorkFactoryExpress #HBCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/george-barnston/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
The muddy horse trail that was called the Athabasca Portage led the men of the incoming York Factory Express north from #Edmonton House to Fort Assiniboine, on the Athabasca River. #Journeys #YorkFactoryExpress #HBCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/athabasca-portage/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
Edmonton House was built in 1795 on the north banks of the North #Saskatchewan River, but it moved many times over the years, as they burned through the forests that surrounded them. In its current position, #Edmonton was as far west as the York Boats could travel in the fall. #YorkFactoryExpress #Journeys #HBCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/edmonton-house/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
The artist Paul Kane, who is travelling west with the incoming York Factory Express of 1846, arrives at #Edmonton House, the headquarters of the HBC's #Saskatchewan district. #HBCHistory #Journeys #YorkFactoryExpress https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/paul-kane-4/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
As I wrote the book, The York Factory Express, I researched the journals of the HBC posts the Express travelled through. Sometimes I got a lot of information, and sometimes I did not. This is the #Edmonton post journal. #YorkFactoryExpress #Journeys #HBCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/edmonton-post-journal/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
From the provisioning post of Fort Pitt, on the North #Saskatchewan River, the men of the incoming York Factory Express continued their upriver journey to #Edmonton House, their headquarters on the river. #Journeys #YorkFactoryExpress #HBCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/sixteenth-leg/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
There were many HBC posts scattered up and down the North #Saskatchewan River, but fw of them still existed in the years the York Factory Express travelled the river. Here is a history of many of them that rose and fell over the years. #YorkFactoryExpress #Journeys #HBCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/north-saskatchewan-posts/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
In the early 1830s, the provisioning post of Fort Pitt was built on the North #Saskatchewan River. Their job was to make the pemmican that fed the HBC men who travelled up and down the river. #YorkFactoryExpress #Journeys #HBCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/fort-pitt/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
From the North #Saskatchewan River post of Carlton House, the men of the incoming York Factory Express continued their upward journey to tiny Fort Pitt -- a provisioning post on the river. #YorkFactoryExpress #Journeys #HBCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/fifteenth-leg/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
As he rode west with the gentlemen of the incoming York Factory Express, the artist Paul Kane viewed an Indigenous Bison hunt, and wrote about it. #HBCHistory #Journeys #YorkFactoryExpress https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/paul-kane-3/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
The North #Saskatchewan River, on whose banks #Edmonton House grew, was an important river in the HBC and NWC trade, and led many men west to the Rockies Mountains and beyond. #Journeys #YorkFactoryExpress #HBCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/north-saskatchewan-river/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
The #Saskatchewan River had many NWC and HBC posts along its banks, as well as those built and manned by the independent traders. These posts rose and fell over the years, and many of them disappeared within a single season: but they were remembered. #YorkFactoryExpress #Journeys #HBCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/saskatchewan-river/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
From Norway House, the artist Paul Kane had accompanied the incoming Express to the Pas #ThePas, and he now continued the journey west, up the North #Saskatchewan River to historic Carlton House. #Journeys #YorkFactoryExpress #HBCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/paul-kane-2/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
From Cumberland House, on the lower #Saskatchewan River, the gentlemen and men of the incoming York Factory Express make their way upriver to historic Carlton House, on the North Saskatchewan. #Journeys #YorkFactoryExpress #HBCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/fourteenth-leg/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
Historic Cumberland House was a place where the men of the outgoing Express paused to rest and to take on supplies. Here is the story of that post. #Journeys #HBCHistory #YorkFactoryExpress https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/cumberland-house/