Grande Prairie
Here is another story from the Grande Prairie — yes, that place that we visited just a few short weeks ago. I found the beginnings of this in the little…
Read moreCheese
Yes. Cheese. An odd subject, perhaps, for a fur trade blogpost, but I have found cheese mentioned at times in the list of provisions the HBC men carried across the…
Read moreFort Shepherd Stories
Well, now that I have entered the Similkameen and Kettle River areas again, it is time to relax a little and tell some stories that are just-plain-fun! So, lets look…
Read moreNicknames
It was a tradition among the voyageurs to use nicknames. As all of us who read a little British Columbia history know, the Native chief Tranquille, who frequented the Kamloops…
Read moreThe Bully of Fort Nisqually
There is another brigade trail which I keep forgetting to mention: of course, until recently I did not know a lot about it. In fact I was quite surprised, only…
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