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  1. THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
    In 1846, the artist Paul Kane leaves #Jasper House on his way across the Rocky Mountains very late in the season -- so late, in fact, that an early snowstorm almost prevented them from reaching the Boat Encampment. #YorkFactoryExpress #Journeys #ABHistory #BCHistory nancymargueriteanderson.com/pa

  2. THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
    In 1846, the artist Paul Kane leaves #Jasper House on his way across the Rocky Mountains very late in the season -- so late, in fact, that an early snowstorm almost prevented them from reaching the Boat Encampment. #YorkFactoryExpress #Journeys #ABHistory #BCHistory nancymargueriteanderson.com/pa

  3. THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
    In 1846, the artist Paul Kane leaves #Jasper House on his way across the Rocky Mountains very late in the season -- so late, in fact, that an early snowstorm almost prevented them from reaching the Boat Encampment. #YorkFactoryExpress #Journeys #ABHistory #BCHistory nancymargueriteanderson.com/pa

  4. THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
    In 1846, the artist Paul Kane leaves #Jasper House on his way across the Rocky Mountains very late in the season -- so late, in fact, that an early snowstorm almost prevented them from reaching the Boat Encampment. #YorkFactoryExpress #Journeys #ABHistory #BCHistory nancymargueriteanderson.com/pa

  5. THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
    In 1846, the artist Paul Kane leaves #Jasper House on his way across the Rocky Mountains very late in the season -- so late, in fact, that an early snowstorm almost prevented them from reaching the Boat Encampment. #YorkFactoryExpress #Journeys #ABHistory #BCHistory nancymargueriteanderson.com/pa

  6. THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
    The old location of Fort Alexandria was in a different location than I have previously understood it to be, and so that changed the story of the Fort Alexandria flood that was the result of a landslide along the Fraser River. But there were two landslides.... #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades #BCHistory nancymargueriteanderson.com/fo

  7. THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
    The old location of Fort Alexandria was in a different location than I have previously understood it to be, and so that changed the story of the Fort Alexandria flood that was the result of a landslide along the Fraser River. But there were two landslides.... #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades #BCHistory nancymargueriteanderson.com/fo

  8. THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
    The old location of Fort Alexandria was in a different location than I have previously understood it to be, and so that changed the story of the Fort Alexandria flood that was the result of a landslide along the Fraser River. But there were two landslides.... #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades #BCHistory nancymargueriteanderson.com/fo

  9. THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
    The old location of Fort Alexandria was in a different location than I have previously understood it to be, and so that changed the story of the Fort Alexandria flood that was the result of a landslide along the Fraser River. But there were two landslides.... #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades #BCHistory nancymargueriteanderson.com/fo

  10. THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
    The old location of Fort Alexandria was in a different location than I have previously understood it to be, and so that changed the story of the Fort Alexandria flood that was the result of a landslide along the Fraser River. But there were two landslides.... #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades #BCHistory nancymargueriteanderson.com/fo

  11. THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
    There was plenty of work to be done at #FortStJames, in order to get everything prepared, packed, and settled before the gentlemen left for their four month long journey to Fort #Vancouver #WA and back. #TheHBCBrigades #Journeys #BCHistory nancymargueriteanderson.com/fo

  12. THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
    Samuel Black was the oddest of all the HBC men: a young highlander of enormous size when he came to Canada and joined the North West Company. Now employed by the HBC, in 1841, Black was murdered inside his #Kamloops post -- shot in the back. #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades #BCHistory nancymargueriteanderson.com/sa

  13. THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
    George Stewart Simpson was the son of Governor George Simpson, and he and his brother John both worked on the West side of the Rocky Mountains, for a few years at least. #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades #WAHistory #BCHistory nancymargueriteanderson.com/si

  14. THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
    In 1835, Peter Skene Ogden was assigned the job of managing the enormous territory of New Caledonia, with his headquarters at Fort St. James #FortStJames in north central British Columbia #BCHistory Always a wanderer, Ogden did not settle down at the post for long. #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades #BC nancymargueriteanderson.com/pe

  15. THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
    In 1822, botanist David Douglas travelled North with the incoming HBC brigades, travelling from the Okanagan to #Kamloops and on to Fort Alexandria by a trail that was different from every other trail known to researchers. The HBC men were bringing in a herd of cattle, interestingly. #BCHistory #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades nancymargueriteanderson.com/ca

  16. THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
    In 1826, and later in 1831, the men of the incoming New Caledonia brigades make their way up the Nechako River toward #FortStJames after a long journey south to Fort #Vancouver #WA. #Journeys #BCHistory #TheHBCBrigades nancymargueriteanderson.com/br

  17. THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
    When the men in the HBC Brigades finally reached Bridge River, on their way North to Fort Alexandria and #FortStJames, they knew that the hard part of the journey home was finished and the easiest part was to come. #TheHBCBrigades #Journeys #HBCHistory #BCHistory nancymargueriteanderson.com/br

  18. THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
    The 1843 brigade trail led the men of the HBC Brigades North from Green Lake to Horse Lake, where they joined the old trail of 1826, and continued their journey West to Fort Alexandria. #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades #BCHistory nancymargueriteanderson.com/ho

  19. THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
    The 1843 brigade trail led north from #Kamloops, following Copper Creek past the Hudson Bay Hotsprings and then all the way to Loon Lake, over the rugged North Thompson Plateau. #TheHBCBrigades #Journeys #BCHistory nancymargueriteanderson.com/lo

  20. THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
    North of Kamloops, the HBC men who travelled in the incoming Brigades followed a new path to the North side of Kamloops Lake and then west to Campment a la Crabine, on Cooper Creek. #BCHistory #TheHBCBrigades #Journeys nancymargueriteanderson.com/18

  21. THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
    From Round Lake, just north of Okanagan Lake, the incoming HBC brigades travelled north through the Grande Prairie, on their way to #Kamloops and home. This part of their journey was relatively easy, through grasslands and prairies. #TheHBCBrigades #Journeys #BCHistory nancymargueriteanderson.com/br

  22. THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
    The Lone Tree was a well-known landmark along the Okanagan Brigade Trail, and a place where the Okanagan First Nations and the brigades met. It stood a little distance from the shoreline of Lake Okanagan, in what is now Summerland. #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades #BCHistory nancymargueriteanderson.com/br

  23. 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

    thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/

  24. THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
    The men who were travelling North with the HBC Brigades now rode up the Okanagan River and camped for the night at the Similkameen Forks. They were on their way home to #Kamloops and #FortStJames #TheHBCBrigades #Journeys #BCHistory nancymargueriteanderson.com/br

  25. THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
    In 1826, and later in 1831, the historic HBC Brigdes made their way north from Fort Okaogan, following their old trail to Kamloops and on to #FortStJames. #TheHBCBrigades #Okanagan #Journeys #WAHistory #BCHistory nancymargueriteanderson.com/br

  26. THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
    On their way home to #FortStJames from Fort #Vancouver, on the Columbia River, the HBC Brigades took to their boats once more and made their way up the river to the mountains to the eastward of the historic old posts. This was only the first leg of the long journey home. #TheHBCBrigades #Journeys #CanadaHistory #BCHistory nancymargueriteanderson.com/br

  27. 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 nancymargueriteanderson.com/oa

  28. 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 nancymargueriteanderson.com/br

  29. 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 nancymargueriteanderson.com/br

  30. 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 nancymargueriteanderson.com/ne

  31. 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 nancymargueriteanderson.com/br

  32. 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 nancymargueriteanderson.com/pe

  33. 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 nancymargueriteanderson.com/tw

  34. 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 nancymargueriteanderson.com/tw

  35. 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

    thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/

  36. 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 nancymargueriteanderson.com/br

  37. 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 nancymargueriteanderson.com/tw

  38. 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 nancymargueriteanderson.com/br

  39. Huge #OrangeShirt #memorial to honour all the native kids' lives lost in the cruel #ResidentialSchool system.
    On the site of one of the worst in Canada - #Namgis territory, #AlertBay. It was called St. Michael's Indian Residential School. It was demolished in 2015. #Umista Cultural Center sits on the old site. #Indigenous peoples have reclaimed their land there & are trying to heal from colonial abuses.

    We have racists in #Canada who are currently dishonouring the victims of residential schools by denying survivors' histories & saying mass graves are a lie. This is so wrong. We owe the ones who died & the living survivors support & reparations. Please don't let folks use denialism around you - confront them & stand up for the victims & survivors.

    Relevant links:
    collections.irshdc.ubc.ca/Deta

    orangeshirtday.org/

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Mich

    umista.ca/

    7generations.org/what-is-every

    #IndigenousChildren #ColonialCrimes #ColonialViolence #ChurchAbuses #RacialViolence #IndigenousGenocide #EveryChildMatters #BelieveVictims #SupportSurvivors #NativeChildren #IndigenousChildren #ChildAbuse #ColonialCoverUps #TruthBeforeReconcilliation #Decolonization #DecolonizeYourMind #BritishColumbia #Canada #CrimesAgainstHumanity #CanadasGenocide #BChistory #CanadianHistory #StopRacism #SystemicRacism #SystematicAbuse

  40. Huge #OrangeShirt #memorial to honour all the native kids' lives lost in the cruel #ResidentialSchool system.
    On the site of one of the worst in Canada - #Namgis territory, #AlertBay. It was called St. Michael's Indian Residential School. It was demolished in 2015. #Umista Cultural Center sits on the old site. #Indigenous peoples have reclaimed their land there & are trying to heal from colonial abuses.

    We have racists in #Canada who are currently dishonouring the victims of residential schools by denying survivors' histories & saying mass graves are a lie. This is so wrong. We owe the ones who died & the living survivors support & reparations. Please don't let folks use denialism around you - confront them & stand up for the victims & survivors.

    Relevant links:
    collections.irshdc.ubc.ca/Deta

    orangeshirtday.org/

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Mich

    umista.ca/

    7generations.org/what-is-every

    #IndigenousChildren #ColonialCrimes #ColonialViolence #ChurchAbuses #RacialViolence #IndigenousGenocide #EveryChildMatters #BelieveVictims #SupportSurvivors #NativeChildren #IndigenousChildren #ChildAbuse #ColonialCoverUps #TruthBeforeReconcilliation #Decolonization #DecolonizeYourMind #BritishColumbia #Canada #CrimesAgainstHumanity #CanadasGenocide #BChistory #CanadianHistory #StopRacism #SystemicRacism #SystematicAbuse

  41. Huge #OrangeShirt #memorial to honour all the native kids' lives lost in the cruel #ResidentialSchool system.
    On the site of one of the worst in Canada - #Namgis territory, #AlertBay. It was called St. Michael's Indian Residential School. It was demolished in 2015. #Umista Cultural Center sits on the old site. #Indigenous peoples have reclaimed their land there & are trying to heal from colonial abuses.

    We have racists in #Canada who are currently dishonouring the victims of residential schools by denying survivors' histories & saying mass graves are a lie. This is so wrong. We owe the ones who died & the living survivors support & reparations. Please don't let folks use denialism around you - confront them & stand up for the victims & survivors.

    Relevant links:
    collections.irshdc.ubc.ca/Deta

    orangeshirtday.org/

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Mich

    umista.ca/

    7generations.org/what-is-every

    #IndigenousChildren #ColonialCrimes #ColonialViolence #ChurchAbuses #RacialViolence #IndigenousGenocide #EveryChildMatters #BelieveVictims #SupportSurvivors #NativeChildren #IndigenousChildren #ChildAbuse #ColonialCoverUps #TruthBeforeReconcilliation #Decolonization #DecolonizeYourMind #BritishColumbia #Canada #CrimesAgainstHumanity #CanadasGenocide #BChistory #CanadianHistory #StopRacism #SystemicRacism #SystematicAbuse

  42. Huge #OrangeShirt #memorial to honour all the native kids' lives lost in the cruel #ResidentialSchool system.
    On the site of one of the worst in Canada - #Namgis territory, #AlertBay. It was called St. Michael's Indian Residential School. It was demolished in 2015. #Umista Cultural Center sits on the old site. #Indigenous peoples have reclaimed their land there & are trying to heal from colonial abuses.

    We have racists in #Canada who are currently dishonouring the victims of residential schools by denying survivors' histories & saying mass graves are a lie. This is so wrong. We owe the ones who died & the living survivors support & reparations. Please don't let folks use denialism around you - confront them & stand up for the victims & survivors.

    Relevant links:
    collections.irshdc.ubc.ca/Deta

    orangeshirtday.org/

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Mich

    umista.ca/

    7generations.org/what-is-every

    #IndigenousChildren #ColonialCrimes #ColonialViolence #ChurchAbuses #RacialViolence #IndigenousGenocide #EveryChildMatters #BelieveVictims #SupportSurvivors #NativeChildren #IndigenousChildren #ChildAbuse #ColonialCoverUps #TruthBeforeReconcilliation #Decolonization #DecolonizeYourMind #BritishColumbia #Canada #CrimesAgainstHumanity #CanadasGenocide #BChistory #CanadianHistory #StopRacism #SystemicRacism #SystematicAbuse

  43. Huge #OrangeShirt #memorial to honour all the native kids' lives lost in the cruel #ResidentialSchool system.
    On the site of one of the worst in Canada - #Namgis territory, #AlertBay. It was called St. Michael's Indian Residential School. It was demolished in 2015. #Umista Cultural Center sits on the old site. #Indigenous peoples have reclaimed their land there & are trying to heal from colonial abuses.

    We have racists in #Canada who are currently dishonouring the victims of residential schools by denying survivors' histories & saying mass graves are a lie. This is so wrong. We owe the ones who died & the living survivors support & reparations. Please don't let folks use denialism around you - confront them & stand up for the victims & survivors.

    Relevant links:
    collections.irshdc.ubc.ca/Deta

    orangeshirtday.org/

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Mich

    umista.ca/

    7generations.org/what-is-every

    #IndigenousChildren #ColonialCrimes #ColonialViolence #ChurchAbuses #RacialViolence #IndigenousGenocide #EveryChildMatters #BelieveVictims #SupportSurvivors #NativeChildren #IndigenousChildren #ChildAbuse #ColonialCoverUps #TruthBeforeReconcilliation #Decolonization #DecolonizeYourMind #BritishColumbia #Canada #CrimesAgainstHumanity #CanadasGenocide #BChistory #CanadianHistory #StopRacism #SystemicRacism #SystematicAbuse

  44. Learn more about #ChiefMaquinna.

    This is a collection of words, photos and video clips for Hyas Tyee #Nuuchahnulth - Chief Maquinna. A greatly respected & important Chief of the Nuuchahnulth #Haida People, of the Haida Gwaii Islands, in #BritishColumbia #Canada.

    Chief Maquinna (also transliterated: Muquinna, Macuina, Maquilla) was the Chief of the Nuuchahnulth People of #NootkaSound, during the heyday of the maritime fur trade in the 1780s and 1790s, on the #PacificNorthwest Coast.

    British explorer #CaptainCook went looking (like so many #Europeans before and after him)or the Northwest Passage. He ran headlong into a thriving trade and business culture on the west coast, overseen by young Nuu-chah-nulth, Chief Maquinna.

    The two men's encounter would forever change trans-Pacific trade and teach the European empire a lesson in diplomacy, they've managed to forget, many times over.

    m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bkf8fIcy

    #BCFirstNations #ColonialBC #ColonialCanada #NativeChiefs #IndigenousChief #NativeBC #FirstPeoples #Maquinna #VancouverIsland #Nootka #VanIsle #PNW #Cascadia #ColonialResistance #BChistory #geopolitics #BCIndigenousHistory #CanadianHistory #PNWHistory #FirstNations #colonialism #BrokenTrust #TruthBeforeReconciliation #Landback #educational #HonourTheTreaties #BCpoli #CDNpoli #HistoryAndPolitics #JusticeForIndigenous

  45. I'll post some belated stuff today; my last full day off before returning to work tomorrow.
    One of my search & rescue friends took me away for an off grid day hiking adventure yesterday & we got home last night.

    #Carmanah Point #LightStation was established in 1891. The first #lighthouse there was built of wood & attached to the keeper's housing. The present tower was built in 1920 of concrete & remains in operation. The area is said to be named for the upstream #Nitinaht village. It is said the name means "thus far upstream".

    In Summer 2024, #Canadian Fisheries & Oceans along with the #CoastGuard announced that the light station was seismically unstable & would be destaffed before the end of the year. On Oct. 25, lightkeepers were removed from the station. The decision to destaff the station has been met with heavy criticism from various local authorities, including local governments, indigenous leadership & industry leaders.

    #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #Mariners #Nautical #EmergencyLight #BoatersSafety #MarineSafety #JuanDeFucaTrail #Westcoast #PacificNorthwest #CowichanValley #Cascadia #monochrome #photography #PNW #BChistory #WildernessSafety

  46. Contrary to common belief the #CPR did not import #ChineseLabor to build the Railway. The Chinese were imported by contractor Andrew Onderdonk, building through #BritishColumbia under contract to the #CanadianGovernment. The C.P.R. took over the line later.

    Chinese Detention Shed in #Vancouver, 1890.
    From #VancouverArchives.

    #AsianMastodon #ChineseCanadianHistory #BCHistory #CanadianHistory #AsianCanadianHistory