The Similkameen Valley section of the Brigade Trail
In 1849, Royal Engineer Lieutenant Henry Spencer Palmer rode over the brigade trail to Fort Colvile at the side of Angus McDonald, who was then in charge of that Columbia…
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In 1849, Deputy-Governor Eden Colvile traveled into the New Caledonia by the Peace River route. As he said in his letter to Sir J. H. Pelly, written from Fort Victoria…
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In late 1858, Lieutenant Henry Spencer Palmer of the Royal Engineers arrived at Fort Victoria with the second batch of soldiers. By late summer of 1859, he was assigned to…
Read moreI Found the Garden of Eden
Quite a long time ago, a friend named Sharon, who is an expert in maps both in the Archives and in various other repositories, took me into Lands and…
Read moreBlackeye Folklore
At the turn of the century, a small group of Athapascan warriors from the Chilcotins crossed the Fraser River and made their way south, toward Kamloops Lake. They knew they…
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