Landmarks on the Hayes River
As you know I have been taking a holiday, spending time in the Archives and also in editing my third book. In looking up what John Franklin had to say…
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So today I am going to write about the Beaver. Why? Because I now have two fur traders who are describing this animal to their London readers. Future London readers,…
Read moreAnderson Lake to Lillooet Lake
In this post we continue with the story of Alexander Caulfield Anderson’s expedition from the Kamloops post to Fort Langley in 1846. This is the first of the four “explorations”…
Read moreThe Klondike Trail
The Klondike trail is very interesting to me, but not because it led gold-miners into the goldfields on the Yukon River. This was an old trail, used for the first…
Read moreJoseph and Josephine Rondeau
I get asked a lot of questions, for the most part because people think I know everything about the Hudson’s Bay Company. I do not, although I have a lot…
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