Simpson at Carlton House
Two hundred years (and a few months) ago, in 1825, Governor George Simpson made his way from the newly constructed Fort Vancouver to Carlton House, on the North Saskatchewan River.…
Read moreFrom Ile-a-la-Crosse to the Clearwater River
In our dueling journals — that of John Work, 1823, and of Archibald McDonald, 1828 — we have reached the post of Ile-a-la-Crosse, on Lac Ile-a-la-Crosse. As you know by…
Read moreThe outgoing New Caledonia brigade
Alexander Caulfield Anderson spent a number of years in the New Caledonia district, the portion of the Columbia district that included Fort Alexandria on the Fraser River (north of Williams…
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