Two Canoes to Kamloops

In our twenty-seventh post in this series, I will bring Governor George Simpson and his party down the North Thompson River to the post at Kamloops — and beyond! So…
Read moreIn this fifteenth leg of the New Caledonia Brigades’ journeys by the Old Brigade Trail to Fort Vancouver and return, I will bring the brigades north from Round Lake, which…
Read moreI am continuing the outgoing express journals on their way south from the Thompson River post at Kamloops, through the Okanagan to Okanogan House. You will notice the two…
Read moreFur trade genealogy is a very interesting subject, and I have quite a bit of information for some of the people whose Google searches turn up on my website. However,…
Read moreAlexander Caulfield Anderson left Kamloops for the last time (as a fur trader, at least) in 1849 when he led the Fort Colvile brigades out to Fort Langley. He would…
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