Grand Rapid to Fort Chipewyan, Athabasca Lake
So, let’s continue our journey down the Athabasca River from Athabasca Landing, heading toward Fort Chipewyan, on Athabasca Lake. That is the first major stop, for the HBC men at…
Read moreThe Klondike Trail
The Klondike trail is very interesting to me, but not because it led gold-miners into the goldfields on the Yukon River. This was an old trail, used for the first…
Read moreBlackeye Folklore
At the turn of the century, a small group of Athapascan warriors from the Chilcotins crossed the Fraser River and made their way south, toward Kamloops Lake. They knew they…
Read moreNicola Lake to Kamloops
From the grasslands of Nicola Lake, the men of the various brigades reached Kamloops by crossing the highlands between the Nicola valley and the Kamloops Lake valley. It’s a beautiful…
Read moreThe fur trade “Harangue”
In Alexander Caulfield Anderson’s journal of exploration, 1847, the explorer writes about a fur trade harangue. He doesn’t call it that, of course. But he harangued the Natives who accompanied…
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