In the eighteenth post in the Two Canoes series, at http://nancymargueriteanderson.com/two-canoes-eighteen/ John Work and Peter Skene Ogden traveled through Jasper Valley to the Grande Traverse on the Whirlpool River, where…
Read moreHere is the first of this pair of journals, as two sets of canoes are making their way west to the Columbia, by the old canoe route followed by the…
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Perhaps the history of the fur trade, and the people who worked in it, is becoming fashionable again. There have been a number of new history books issued and more…
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Who was Dugald Mactavish, who took over Fort Vancouver after Peter Skene Ogden’s death in 1854? Bruce McIntyre Watson, in his book “Lives Lived,” tells us he was born…
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Alexander Caulfield Anderson was one of the most significant men of his time (the 1840’s) in the early history of what later became British Columbia, and so I thought some…
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