About “The Pathfinder,” by Nancy Marguerite Anderson
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 moreTwo Canoes: Jasper Valley
In October 1823, John Work and Peter Skene Ogden are making their way west from York Factory, on Hudson Bay, to their new employment on the Pacific slopes. For Work…
Read moreLeather Pass
As a fur trade descendant, I have always called the northern pass through the mountains “Leather Pass.” Today this is officially known as the Yellowhead, which comes from its original…
Read moreIndian Reserve Journals
As I wrote in The Pathfinder, in 1875 and 1876, Alexander Caulfield Anderson was retired from the Hudson’s Bay Company and farmed in North Saanich: For 20 years after his disastrous…
Read moreBridge River
I find that, entirely by accident, two threads (stories) I am telling merge at the same place: at what the HBC men called Bridge River! But, as you can see…
Read moreThe New Caledonia Brigades climb the Mountain
As we begin this blogpost, the incoming brigades are camped on the banks of the North Thompson River, presumably near modern day Little Fort — although I am not sure…
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