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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 moreSalish Wool Dog
In 1847, Chief Factors James Douglas and Peter Skene Ogden asked Alexander Caulfield Anderson, then Chief Trader in charge at Fort Alexandria, to make his second exploration between Kamloops and…
Read morePotatoes at Fort Alexandria
You may wonder why I am writing about a topic such as potatoes in the fur trade, but this is a subject that has caught some fur-trade-historians’ attention. Richard Mackie…
Read moreYork Factory Express: Fort Nez Perces to Fort Colvile
I learned something new last week, and it has blown me away! I am, after all, the expert on the brigade trails, am I not? And did not the outgoing York…
Read moreThe First Cousins
First cousins are special. They are almost brothers and sisters; they are someone you have known all your life, if you are lucky enough to have known them at all.…
Read moreChief William, of William’s Lake
In 1879, Chief William, of the ‘Williams Lake Indians,’ wrote a letter to the editor of the British Daily Colonist newspaper in Victoria, B.C., urging readers to “settle the land…
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