Liard River 2
I promised my Twitter followers I was going to keep them wet and cold over Christmas, and I can’t think of a better way to do that than to continue…
Read moreJames Douglas and the Harrison-Lillooet Trail
So we have brought Alexander Caulfield Anderson all the way to Fort Langley, via what later came to be known as the Harrison-Lillooet trail. What happened next? Well, nothing —…
Read moreIndian Reserve Commission on Burrard Inlet
In 1876, the newly appointed Indian Reserve Commissioners moved on from the Musqueam villages, at the mouth of the Fraser, to Burrard Inlet, north of modern day Vancouver. Alexander Caulfield…
Read moreBeaver
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”…
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