We are still Here: the Métis in the West
As many of you know, I am descended from Joseph Beaulieu, who crossed the Rocky Mountains in 1807 with David Thompson. My DNA test tells me that he is a…
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James Birnie was my great-great-grandfather, and father of the woman that Alexander Caulfield Anderson married in 1837. I will write their story, but in this post we are continuing with…
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