Joachim Lafleur
Joachim Lafleur worked at Fort Okanogan in the 1840’s, when Alexander Caulfield Anderson was in charge of Fort Colvile. I just wrote a tweet that mentioned Lafleur, and that reminded…
Read moreTraditional Metis employment West of the Rocky Mountains
I have had a most interesting interview that I am not going to tell you about, but it got me thinking about the careers that the Metis people may have…
Read moreLillooet Lake to Fort Langley
We begin again with Alexander Caulfield Anderson’s journal of his exploration/expedition from Kamloops to Fort Langley, by what later became the Harrison-Lillooet Trail. The year is 1846, and his party…
Read moreAnderson Lake to Lillooet Lake
In this post we continue with the story of Alexander Caulfield Anderson’s expedition from the Kamloops post to Fort Langley in 1846. This is the first of the four “explorations”…
Read moreThe Fraser Canyon War
I have to re-write the last two chapters of my brigades book because I fell into a story I had not researched nor discovered until now. Why had I not…
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