by lakecountry | Nov 21, 2014 | Bloggers, History of Lake Country, Thomson, Carol
Father Charles Pandosy arrived in 1859 with the Lawrence brothers and William Pion. They spent that hard winter in a crude shelter on the shores of Duck Lake before moving camp to Mission Creek and founding their church. The early 1870s saw the arrival in...
by lakecountry | Nov 14, 2014 | Bloggers, History of Lake Country, Thomson, Duane
During the early years of the fur trade, hundreds of young men moved to Rupert’s Land and the Columbia to work for the North West Company or, after 1821, the amalgamated firm, the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC). No white women accompanied these men and if the men stayed...
