Whaleteah, chief of the Alexandria home guard
Alexander Caulfield Anderson called the one of the Native men who lived outside Fort Alexandria “Whaletah,” and Chief Trader Donald McLean (who took over the post after Anderson left) wrote…
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I have always been interested in the story of the Walla Walla Chief named Peu-Peu-Mox-Mox — an Indigenous man who I think was a very honorable man. I run across…
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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.…
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This is a British Columbia story that many have heard — a story of multiple deaths and murders. The first murder (that of Alexis Bellanger) happened on the Fraser River…
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John Cole: Who the heck is he? John Cole was never employed in the fur trade West of the Rocky Mountains — and yet he played a role in its…
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