Little Stories from Scraps of an old Manuscript

Hidden away in the B.C. Archives is a magical little document written by Alexander Caulfield Anderson, in which he writes stories of the things he learned from the Natives that…
Read moreHidden away in the B.C. Archives is a magical little document written by Alexander Caulfield Anderson, in which he writes stories of the things he learned from the Natives that…
Read moreAs a BC-ite and fur trade historian of sorts, I have been brought up on the notion that the salmon runs were regular events, and that only once in every…
Read moreThis is a talk I gave in front of the Anderson Island Historical Society, in Puget Sound. Alexander Caulfield Anderson had history here — he spent almost two years in…
Read moreAlexander 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…
Read moreYou may wonder why I am writing about a topic such as potatoes in the fur trade, but this is a subject that has caught some fur-trade-historians’ attention. Richard Mackie…
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