Two Canoes: The “Big Hill”
In his journal it appears that John Work, and his incoming party, has just passed the Council’s Punch Bowl when they “Encamped in the afternoon near what is called the…
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In late May, 1846, Alexander Caulfield Anderson set out from Fort Langley on his return journey to Kamloops, across the range of mountains that separated Fort Langley from the interior…
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In 1846, the British and American governments negotiated the placement of the new Boundary line through Hudson’s Bay Company lands west of the Rocky Mountains. The HBC’s governor, George Simpson,…
Read moreAlexander Caulfield Anderson’s 1867 Map of British Columbia
This, shown above, is a portion of Alexander Caulfield Anderson’s 1867 Map of a Portion of the Colony of British Columbia, compiled from various sources, including Original Notes from Personal…
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