Natives in the Kamloops Post Journals
NOTICE: The BC Wild Fires are threatening to burn through the wires that bring power to Vancouver and Victoria. If that happens, I won’t be able to blog and will…
Read moreThe 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 moreFort Alexandria to Drowned Horse Lake
In this post, part of a series beginning here: http://nancymargueriteanderson.com/brigade-one/ I am continuing to tell the story of two outgoing brigades on their journey from Fort St. James to Fort…
Read moreChief William, of William’s Lake
In 1879, Chief William, of the ‘Williams Lake Indians,’ wrote a letter to the editor of the British Daily Colonist newspaper in Victoria, B.C., urging readers to “settle the land…
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