New Caledonia Brigades Travel up the North River
Today we will continue with our brigade journey north of Kamloops, up the North Thompson River toward the modern day town of Little Fort. Anderson rode over this trail when…
Read more1843 Brigade Trail: Green Lake to Horse Lake
This is the most difficult part of the trail to write about, as there are two routes in this part of the country, neither of them well known. One is…
Read moreBlackeye, and Blackeye’s Son: Who are They?
In Alexander Caulfield Anderson’s 1846 journal, we come across the Similkameen Native man named Blackeye. This is what Anderson wrote of him [it has been edited for length]: Saty 6th…
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