On their arrival at Norway House, east of Lake Winnipeg, the men of the returning York Factory Express (now called the Columbia Express) knew they had completed the most difficult…
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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…
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Alexander Caulfield Anderson was one of the most significant men of his time (the 1840’s) in the early history of what later became British Columbia, and so I thought some…
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The Chilcotin post, first built in 1829 as a temporary post and completed at a later date, stood at the junction of the Chilco and Chilcotin Rivers and was an…
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In one of his manuscripts Anderson wrote about the pigs that were at Fort Alexandria when he was there, and how happy he was to see the last of them!…
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