Thomas Lowe, Fall 1845
In Fall, 1845, Thomas Lowe continued to record the many new happenings and visitors to Fort Vancouver. I finished the last post with this this paragraph: “Two other British officers are…
Read moreCape Disappointment
I am exploring what happened when Henry James Warre came to the Columbia district in August 1845, travelling in with Peter Skene Ogden. There were some very interesting conversations going…
Read moreConnolly’s Brigades and McLeod’s Express
In 1826, the expresses and brigades had different, but similar experiences as they passed through the range of mountains that separated the Pacific Coast from the interior of what is…
Read moreHarrison Lillooet Trail
There is one more trail I have to mention, that I barely spoke of in my book, The HBC Brigades: Culture, Conflict, and Perilous Journeys of the Fur Trade. The…
Read moreJean-Baptiste Leolo
Jean-Baptiste Leolo (also known as Jean-Baptiste Lolo) was an important man in British Columbia, and more specifically, Kamloops’s history — and he still is, right up to the modern-day. He…
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