Club Law
In 1841, while he was in charge of Fort Nisqually, Alexander Caulfield Anderson got into a little trouble with Chief Factor John McLoughlin. Anderson had quarreled with a French-Canadian employee,…
Read moreAlexis Bellanger
This is a British Columbia story that many have heard — a story of multiple deaths and murders. The first murder (that of Alexis Bellanger) happened on the Fraser River…
Read moreMichel Fallardeau
Michel Fallardeau is one of my favorite men in the history of the West side of the Rocky Mountains before 1858; and a man who suffered a mysterious death. It…
Read moreThe Outgoing Brigade at Fort St. James
In March 1843, clerk Alexander Caulfield Anderson came north to Fort St. James to take the place of Peter Skene Ogden who had traveled out with the express party to…
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