Drowned Horse Lake to North River (Little Fort)
To get from Drowned Horse Lake to the North Thompson River, these HBC Traders will now have to travel over the rugged Thompson plateau. You can more or less follow…
Read moreFort Alexandria to Drowned Horse Lake
In this post, part of a series beginning here: https://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 moreOutgoing Brigade, Fort George to Fort Alexandria
In this post I am now telling the story of the annual brigade journey from Fort George to Fort Alexandria, on the Fraser River north of modern-day Williams Lake, B.C.…
Read moreThe outgoing New Caledonia brigade
Alexander Caulfield Anderson spent a number of years in the New Caledonia district, the portion of the Columbia district that included Fort Alexandria on the Fraser River (north of Williams…
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