Two Canoes to Kamloops
In our twenty-seventh post in this series, I will bring Governor George Simpson and his party down the North Thompson River to the post at Kamloops — and beyond! So…
Read moreTwo Canoes: John Work comes down the Columbia River
So in the last John Work journal, he and Peter Skene Ogden had reached Boat Encampment, having come down the Big Hill from Athabasca Pass. The year is 1823 —…
Read moreAn addition to the Cannibalism post
This will be a shorter-than-my-normal post, and it is part of the Cannibalism post of a few weeks ago. But this story is interesting: it is Paul Kane’s story of…
Read moreA Childhood at Fort Alexandria, Fraser River
Alexander Caulfield Anderson’s children grew up at Fort Alexandria, on the Upper Fraser River, where they had dozens of people who looked after them. James Robert Anderson was born at…
Read moreCannibalism
As you will see in this post, http://nancymargueriteanderson.com/the-murderer/ , there was an Indigenous man at the Fort Alexandria post that creeped everyone else out, because of his supposed direct involvement…
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