Ojibwe In his diary, Du Vernet meets many Ojibwe people, seeing their culture and hearing their language first hand. The Ojibwe, also known as Anishinaabeg, are Indigenous peoples whose traditional territories surround and radiate outward from the Great Lakes, on both sides of what is now the …
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Eliza Crowe
Eliza Crowe Eliza Crowe was 45 and ill with tuberculosis when Du Vernet met her in the summer of 1898. Married to John Crowe, a steamer pilot, Eliza was the mother of several children, including two whose deaths as small babies were memorialized by a gravestone in the Anglican churchyard: …
York Factory
York Factory York Factory was the operational headquarters of the powerful Hudson's Bay Company (HBC). Situated in northern Manitoba, where the Hayes River meets the Hudson's Bay, the Hudson's Bay Company established York Factory in 1684 as a fur trading post. The region was home to both …