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THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
Did the HBC men paddling the boats up and down the Columbia River use oars, or did they use paddles? Its a fun investigation, and I learned they began with paddles but within a few years found they accomplished more with the use of oars. #TheHBCBrigades #BCHistory #Journeys https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/oars-or-paddles/

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
Once the outgoing brigades reached Fort Okanogan, they were on the Columbia River. Here they left their horses behind to recruit, and continued their journey to Headquarters by boat down the rapid-filled Columbia. #TheHBCBrigades #Journeys #BCHistory #WAHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/brigade-seven/

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
There are historic old trails all over this country, but are they all brigade trails? If some of them are known to carry the early Nor'westers through the country and down to the Okanagan post, then I think they are. #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades #BCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/brigade-trail-2/

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
To trace an old trail on a modern day map, sometimes the best thing to do is visit the place and look at where it would have run, had not a railway been in view. But, remember, new trails follow old, and once you remember that you can find several places where the railway has buried older trails. #TheHBCBrigades #Journeys #BCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/new-trails-follow-old/

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
South of #Kamloops, the outgoing HBC brigades made their way south through the Grand Prairie, and passing #Okanagan Lake they made their way all the way south to Fort #Okanagon, on the Columbia River. #TheHBCBrigades #Journeys #BCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/brigade-six/

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
For about five years in the early 1830s, Peter Warren Dease was in charge of New Caledonia, and it was he who led out the HBC Brigades from #FortStJames to Fort #Vancouver #WA #TheHBCBrigades #BCHistory #Journeys #WAHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/peter-warren-dease/

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
In 1828, Governor Simpson journeyed out from York Factory, coming by the Peace River to #FortStJames before travelling down the North River to the little post at #Kamloops. #TheHBCBrigades #Journeys #BCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/two-canoes-twenty-seven/

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
In 1828, governor George Simpson came to the west and on his journey between #FortStJames and Fort #Vancouver #WA he descended the Fraser River through its canyons in a small boat. At the end of the journey he was glad he had survived it. #TheHBCBrigades #Journeys #BCHistory #WAHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/two-canoes-twenty-eight/

BC Joins Confederation

On July 20th in 1871, British Columbia became the sixth province to join Canadian Confederation. The promise of a railway connecting BC to eastern Canada was a key factor in the province's decision to join. #BCHistory #CanadianHistory 🇨🇦 #Canada

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/british-columbia

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
Once the outgoing brigades reached the banks of the North River, they crossed packs and horses to the east bank before heading downriver, by land or by canoe, to the little post at #Kamloops #TheHBCBrigades #Journeys #BCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/brigade-five/

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
In 1828, the governor of the HBC journeyed across the continent to #FortStJames, and then followed the HBC brigade trail south over the Thompson Plateau on his way to the North River and #Kamloops. #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades #BCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/two-canoes-twenty-five/

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
From Drowned Horse Lake, the HBC men in the outgoing HBC Brigades travel across what they called the Mountain, and down the steep hill to the North River which would bring them to #Kamloops. #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades #BCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/brigade-four/

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
Between Drowned Horse Lake and the North River there was a place the HBC men called 'the Mountain." But there is no mountain there, and so I was curious to discover how the name came to be. #ourneys #TheHBCBrigades #BCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/mountain/

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
In 1826, and later in 1830, two parties of men rode out from Fort Alexandria with the New Caledonia Brigades, following the horse path east across the plateau to the North River which would lead them to #Kamloops. #TheHBCBrigades #Journeys #BCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/brigade-three/

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
I explored Dairy Fields, in Williams Lake, where Indigenous communities exist alongside remnants of an old missionary, in a place where the old brigade trails might run through the property. #TheHBCBrigades #BCHistory #Journeys https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/dairy-fields/

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
In 1828, Governor George Simpson travelled by canoe down the Nechako River where he fell into the Fraser River, which carried him south to Fort Aleandria. #TheHBCBrigades #Journeys #BCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/two-canoes-twenty-three/

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
The first leg of the outgoing brigade was from #FortStJames to Fort George #PrinceGeorge. Next came the descent of the Fraser River as the men and boats made their way south to Fort Alexandria. #TheHBCBrigades #Journeys #BCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/brigade-two/

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
The old brigade trail that the HBC men travelled over began at #FortStJames, and followed the Fraser River south to Fort Alexandria. From that post they took to horseback and rode across the plateau to the North [Thompson] River, and #Kamloops. #TheHBCBrigades #Journeys #BCHistory #WAHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/brigade-one/

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, AND PERILOUS JOURNEYS
In 1825, the old brigade trail led the HBC men from #FortStJames to the banks of the North Thompson River (which the HBC men called the North River), before heading south to #Kamloops and on to the Columbia River at Fort Okanogan. From there it was a dangerous journey downriver to Fort #Vancouver. #TheHBCBrigades #Journeys #BCHistory #WAHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/old-brigade-trail/

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
There are many old trails that ran through the territory that is now British Columbia, and many of them are buried under roads and railways. So here is a listing of some of them that used to be the HBC Brigade Trails. #TheHBCBrigades #BCHistory #Journeys https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/brigade-trails/

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
One early researcher put together a list of all the trading posts in New Caledonia and on the Northwest Coast, and considering he was working on this information in the 1920s, he did an excellent job of listing them all. #TheHBCBrigades #Journeys #BCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/new-caledonia-posts/

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
There were many historic trading posts along the Peace River over the years and many of them played important roles in the HBC business West of the Rocky Mountains. After all, for many years, this was the only access to the New Caledonia district. #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades #BCHistory #ABHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/historic-posts-peace-river/

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
In 1824, James McMillan and his party of explorers make their way to the Fraser River and paddle up and down the river, talking to the First Nations people who live there. #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades #BCHistory #WAHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/exploring-frasers-river/

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
In 1824, James McMillan's party of men followed the Nicomekl River east from Puget Sound to the Fraser River, in search of a place where the future #FortLangley would be constructed a few years later. #TheHBCBrigades #Journeys #WAHistory #BCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/nicomekl-river/

THREE JOURNEYS NORTH TO THE ARCTIC SEA:
In 1850 the Beaver steamer ran onto a rock and damaged her keel. She was sent North to Sitka to be repaired, but this meant that she missed all her most important runs up the coast. Amazingly, this accident changed the #history of Robert Selkirk's post on the #Yukon River. #ThreeJourneysNorth #Journeys #BCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/accident-to-the-beaver/

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
The men who began their journey from the mouth of the Columbia River, reached the bottom of Puget Sound and began to make their way north, up the Sound, toward the mouth of the Fraser River, on the second leg of their journey. #TheHBCBrigades #Journeys #BCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/puget-sound/

THREE JOURNEYS NORTH TO THE ARCTIC SEA:
I ran across a man called John O'Brien in the York Factory Express. Then I found him on the Northwest coast and at Fort Durham. After that he turned up as one of Robert Campbell's employees at Frances Lake #BC and in the #Yukon. He is in all my stories.... #ThreeJourneysNorth #Journeys #BCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/john-obrien/

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
In Winter 1824, a group of men set out from Fort George, at the mouth of the Columbia River, on a long expedition North to explore the banks of the Fraser River to locate a new post on that river some time in the future. #TheHBCBrigades #Journeys #BCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/fraser-river/

THREE JOURNEYS NORTH TO THE ARCTIC SEA:
In 1839, Chief Trader Robert Campbell travelled from the Liard River to what he called Pelly Banks, in the #Yukon, where a new post would be built a few years later. #ThreeJourneysNorth #Journeys #BCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/liard-4/

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
Fort Alexandria was first built in 1821 by the North West Company men, on the east bank of the Fraser River. At various times in its long life it stood at five or more different locations, and it is only by reading the journals that you can figure out when it was relocated. It was an interesting project, actually. #TheHBCBrigades #Journeys #BCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/fort-alexandria-location/