This is my second post in the series that covers the Indian Reserve Commission Journals kept by Alexander Caulfield Anderson in 1876 and 1877. In my last post, http://nancymargueriteanderson.com/indian-reserve-journals/ the…
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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…
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This is the most difficult part of the trail to write about, as there are two routes in this part of the country, neither of them well known. One is…
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The Arrow Lakes, as they existed before the waters of the Columbia River were raised by the dams along its length, must have been a spectacular place, with its two…
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From Loon Lake, in what is now the province of British Columbia, the men of the incoming New Caledonia brigade rode northwest, crossing the range of hills that lay between…
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