Eight drawings mounted in a later album, seven of them rendered in red chalk. Drawings depict Native American hunters smoking pipes, carrying a canoe, carrying pelts, and a woman carrying a papoose; coureurs du bois holding guns; scenes from beaver hu...
Holograph diary kept by Porcher while commander of the HMS Sparrowhawk during its voyage from England to British Columbia by way of South America, through the Straits of Magellan, from Callao to the Hawaiian Islands, and from Honolulu to Esquimalt Har...
Description:
British naval officer who entered the service in 1837, was appointed captain in 1868, retired in 1872, and died in Germany in 1878. Porcher served on various ships on voyages to Australia, the Orient, and the Middle East, where he prepared drawings fo...
Subject (Geographic):
British Columbia., British Columbia, Vancouver Island (B.C.), Esquimalt (B.C.), and Northwest Coast of North America
Subject (Name):
Porcher, Edwin Augustus., Seymour, Frederick, 1820-1869., Great Britain. Royal Navy., and Sparrowhawk (Ship)
Subject (Topic):
Voyages and travels, Voyages to the Pacific coast, Mines and mineral resources, Coal mines and mining, Gold mines and mining, Lumber trade, Indians of North America, Commerce, Description and travel, Politics and government, Social life and customs, Missionaries, and Fur trade
Holograph diary kept by Porcher while commander of the HMS Sparrowhawk during its voyage from England to British Columbia by way of South America, through the Straits of Magellan, from Callao to the Hawaiian Islands, and from Honolulu to Esquimalt Har...
Description:
British naval officer who entered the service in 1837, was appointed captain in 1868, retired in 1872, and died in Germany in 1878. Porcher served on various ships on voyages to Australia, the Orient, and the Middle East, where he prepared drawings fo...
Subject (Geographic):
British Columbia., British Columbia, Vancouver Island (B.C.), Esquimalt (B.C.), and Northwest Coast of North America
Subject (Name):
Porcher, Edwin Augustus., Seymour, Frederick, 1820-1869., Great Britain. Royal Navy., and Sparrowhawk (Ship)
Subject (Topic):
Voyages and travels, Voyages to the Pacific coast, Mines and mineral resources, Coal mines and mining, Gold mines and mining, Lumber trade, Indians of North America, Commerce, Description and travel, Politics and government, Social life and customs, Missionaries, and Fur trade
Holograph diary kept by Porcher while commander of the HMS Sparrowhawk during its voyage from England to British Columbia by way of South America, through the Straits of Magellan, from Callao to the Hawaiian Islands, and from Honolulu to Esquimalt Har...
Description:
British naval officer who entered the service in 1837, was appointed captain in 1868, retired in 1872, and died in Germany in 1878. Porcher served on various ships on voyages to Australia, the Orient, and the Middle East, where he prepared drawings fo...
Subject (Geographic):
British Columbia., British Columbia, Vancouver Island (B.C.), Esquimalt (B.C.), and Northwest Coast of North America
Subject (Name):
Porcher, Edwin Augustus., Seymour, Frederick, 1820-1869., Great Britain. Royal Navy., and Sparrowhawk (Ship)
Subject (Topic):
Voyages and travels, Voyages to the Pacific coast, Mines and mineral resources, Coal mines and mining, Gold mines and mining, Lumber trade, Indians of North America, Commerce, Description and travel, Politics and government, Social life and customs, Missionaries, and Fur trade
The records of the Hudson's Bay Company, from various company stations, include: "Fort Pelly Scroll Book, Outfit 1868," various accounts and equipment lists (39 p.); "Journal of Daily Occurrences kept at the Honble. the Hudsons Bay Company's Last Moun...
Description:
Available on microfilm.
Subject (Geographic):
Northwest, Canadian, Fort Qu'appelle (Sask.), Fort Pelly (Sask.), and Last Mountain House (Sask.)
Print shows the interior of For Garry; an open square with buidlings on three sides; flag pole in center of square and image flies the flag of the Hudson's Bay Company; trappers, indigeneous Canadians, dogs, and a small horse pulling a cart on the lef...
Letters to James Monroe, Secretary of State, James Madison, President, and William Jones, Secretary of the Navy, John Astor's efforts to secure government protection for his Pacific Fur Company post at Fort Astoria. One letter by Albert Gallatin intro...
Description:
Typed transcript available.
Subject (Geographic):
Northwest, Pacific and Oregon
Subject (Name):
Astor, John Jacob, 1763-1848., Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849., Jones, William, 1760-1831., Monroe, James, 1758-1831., United States. President (1809-1817 : Madison), United States. Department of State., United States. Navy Dept., and Pacific Fur Company.
The brig Lydia was on a fur trading voyage from Boston to the northwest coast of North America in 1804-05, Capt. Samuel Hill in command. Along with the log the volume contains an abstract from Joel Richardson's journal regarding the Atahualpa massacre...
Subject (Geographic):
Northwest Coast of North America and Northwest Coast of North America.
Subject (Name):
Hill, Samuel. 1777-1825., Hurd, Isaac, 1782-1828., Richardson, Joel., Atahualpa (Ship), Lydia (Brig), and Swift (Ship)
Subject (Topic):
Fur trade, Massacres, Voyages and travels, History, and Seafaring life
The journals, blotter, and ledger, kept by Ralph Haskins, record the voyage of the ship Atahualpa in the years 1800-1803, from Boston to the northwest coast of America, and then to Canton, China, and back to Boston
Description:
Available on microfilm.
Subject (Geographic):
Northwest Coast of North America, Guangzhou (China), and Northwest Coast of North America.
Subject (Name):
Haskins, Ralph, 1779-1852. and Atahualpa (Ship)
Subject (Topic):
Fur trade, History, Seafaring life, and Voyages and travels
