Summerland
Sunday in Summerland is a day to relax, and we did do that. There were few goals to accomplish, except searching through bookstores for extra copies of the books…
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And so we began our next day exploring Falkland and Westwold, B.C., two towns that lie in the famous Grande Prairie. The phone number that David Gregory gave us…
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A few days ago I was thinking about the 1843 brigade trail, and wondered if I would get any clues on its location from David Douglas’s journey to New Caledonia…
Read moreNew Caledonia brigade moves north from Round Lake
In this fifteenth leg of the New Caledonia Brigades’ journeys by the Old Brigade Trail to Fort Vancouver and return, I will bring the brigades north from Round Lake, which…
Read moreJohn Stuart, and the Brigade trails in B.C.
In 1805, the Nor’Westers Paul Fraser, and John Stuart, entered New Caledonia via the Peace River, establishing a post at Trout Lake [McLeod Lake]. Fraser left Jean Baptiste Boucher [Waccan,…
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