James Birnie, Alexander Caulfield Anderson, and Reverend Herbert Beaver
In this section of the James and Charlot Birnie thread, we left Birnie’s story as he and his family were sailing south from his posting at Fort Simpson in 1836.…
Read moreMeasles in the Columbia district, summer to fall 1847
In my first book, The Pathfinder, I wrote a little of the measles epidemic in the Columbia district, that finally reached Fort Alexandria [in central British Columbia] in January 1848.…
Read moreWaiilatpu Massacre
From my first book, The Pathfinder, I post the brief introduction to the 1847 measles epidemic in the Columbia district and New Caledonia [British Columbia], that eventually resulted in the…
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