The Murderer
In the memoirs of James Robert Anderson, son of Alexander Caulfield Anderson, there are the beginnings of many little stories, which I am sometimes able to develop into larger ones.…
Read moreLooking for Le Barge
I was asked an interesting question the other day: Where do I suppose that the name of the Barge village, on Fraser River, came from? Le Barge was a Secwepemc…
Read moreFishing in the Fur Trade
Everywhere, in the territory West of the Rocky Mountains, the salmon were important to the Natives, and to the fur traders as well. In his unpublished essay, “British Columbia,”…
Read moreLittle Fort, on the North Thompson River
It delights me to find people who are interested in the history of the little place they came from — and I have heard from someone who is from one…
Read moreNative Bridges in the Fraser Canyon
At Fort Alexandria, the first days of April 1847 came in pleasant and warm, though snow still lay on the ground. On April 23, Montrose McGillivray arrived at the fort…
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