1843 Brigade Trail: Green Lake to Horse Lake
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…
Read moreArrow Lakes
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…
Read moreThe 1843 Brigade Trail, Loon Lake to Green Lake
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…
Read moreThe 1843 brigade trail, Copper Creek to Loon Lake
This blogpost has been rewritten, with lots of new information. I have learned much more about the trail since I wrote this the first time. In November 1842, Alexander…
Read moreNicola Lake to Kamloops
From the grasslands of Nicola Lake, the men of the various brigades reached Kamloops by crossing the highlands between the Nicola valley and the Kamloops Lake valley. It’s a beautiful…
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