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 moreWas James King murdered by Joseph-Maurice LaMothe?
Like John Cole before them, fur traders James King of the North West Company, and the New Nor’Wester’s clerk Joseph-Maurice LaMothe, made history along the North Saskatchewan River. No, neither…
Read moreThe Orkney Islands
“It is the lot and duty of every man to seek a profession,” Augustus Richard Peers wrote from Peel’s River House [later Fort McPherson] in the early 1850’s. “Some there…
Read moreKamloops to Campement a la Carabine, Copper Creek
From November 1842 to April 1848, Alexander Caulfield Anderson was in charge of Fort Alexandria, on the upper Fraser River, north of Soda Creek and south of Quesnel. In the…
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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