Saturday August 16, 2025

252 years ago

​Monday August 16th 1773

Excerpt from Journal of Prince of Wales’s Fort by Chief Factor Moses Norton
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Little Wind at East & clear weather. 2 men a hay making, 13 men & 3 Esquemay boys away in the brig, 2 men with the harpooner boiling the oil, 4 men cutting wood for the ship to stow with cargo, the cooper preparing casks for ye oil and to send to the goose tents to salt geese in, sent 6 men up to the cove who brought the Speedwell to the launch in order carry up that salt and casks to go North Point goose tent for ye spring and fall season, 2 men drilling stones. Some of our men sick besides Natives with fluxes, armour repairing hunting guns.

Reference: HBC Archives, Fort Churchill Post Journal B42-A-86 1772-1773

A pipe stem fragment. 

Florence Hamilton recording a small cache likely used to store meat.