Harrison-Lillooet Trail
I am starting a new thread here, telling the story of the Harrison-Lillooet trail from 1846, to 1859 or so. I collected a ton of information on this interesting trail…
Read moreIndian Reserve Journals, Musqueam
So in Anderson’s Indian Reserve Commission Journals, we’ve reached the Musqueam Reserve and recorded what happened through Friday, November 10 1876. In many of these posts I am not going…
Read moreThe Fraser Canyon War
I have to re-write the last two chapters of my brigades book because I fell into a story I had not researched nor discovered until now. Why had I not…
Read moreJason Allard’s Stories of his Father
Jason Ovide Allard grew up in the HBC, at Forts Langley and Yale. His father was a Canadien named Ovid Allard, who had several Indigenous wives. Jason’s mother was an…
Read moreTwo Canoes Through the Fraser Canyon
In this last leg of the Two Canoes series, I will bring Governor George Simpson down the Fraser River, from the mouth of the Thompson River to Fort Langley. Those…
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