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My name is Nancy Marguerite Anderson, and I am the author of the book, The Pathfinder: A. C. Anderson’s Journeys in the West [Victoria, BC: Heritage House Publ, 2011] Anderson’s…
Read moreLe Camas
Have you wondered what the flower that graces my website is? It is the camas, a flower familiar to many of the furtraders. The North West Company explorer David Thompson…
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Every family has its stories, that get forgotten if you do not tell them. Our family stories are wound up in the furniture which we save from one generation to…
Read moreCoquihalla Map for #MappyMonday
This part of Alexander Caulfield Anderson’s 1867 map of British Columbia shows the area of the province covered by the Coquihalla Mountain west of Hope, B.C. Look for Council’s PunchBowl…
Read moreThe Brigade Trails west of Okanagan Lake
As it happens, I am writing about the HBC transportation systems in the territory West of the Rocky Mountains: the London Ships, the York Factory Express, and the Brigades. Anderson’s…
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