Fur Trade
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Hugh Monroe
By Jim Helvey, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=53005166 South of the Canadian border, in the Two Medicine area of Glacier National Park, stands the imposing feature that is Rising Wolf Mountain. The author James Willard Schultz named the mountain in honour of his friend Hugh Monroe, a former Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) and American Fur Company Continue reading
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The 1752 Raid on Pickawillany
When he died in the winter of 1800-1801, Charles-Michel Mouet de Langlade had been an ally to the British in North America for forty years. Such an outcome would not have occurred when he first stepped onto the pages of history. Langlade was a Métis; his mother, Domitilde, was the daughter of an Odawa (or Continue reading
Hellish Fiends, and Brutish Men 