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  1. 🔥⚠️ EVACUATION ALERT 🔥⚠️

    June 02, 2026
    BC Swede Creek Fire 🇨🇦

    According to CRD, the alert has been issued to give residents enough time to prepare to evacuate their properties if it is required.

    “Residents will be given as much advance notice as possible if an evacuation order is required;
    ⚠️ 👉 however, we may not have time to go door-to-door due to changing conditions,” ‼️

    Please read important information in linked article

    #BC #Quesnel #Canada

    wltribune.com/2026/06/02/out-o

  2. THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
    Alexis Bellanger was shot but not killed in the boats as they came up the Fraser River to the #Quesnel River and Fort George #PrinceGeorge. He did die as a result of this shooting, but later, and at Fort Alexandria. His story is well known in this part of the world. #TheHBCBrigades #Journeys #HBCHistory nancymargueriteanderson.com/al

  3. THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
    The Chilcotin post was an outpost of Fort Alexandria, on the Fraser River south of #Quesnel. It was built in 1829 as a temporary post, and served the Chilcotin region for a few years before it was closed down. Its field of oats still comes up every year. #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades #WestOfTheMountains nancymargueriteanderson.com/ch

  4. THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
    Alexis Bellanger was a well known Cree/French employee on the river, but he died as the result of a gunshot would as he was bringing the boats up the Fraser River near #Quesnel. #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades #HBCHistory nancymargueriteanderson.com/al

  5. THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
    From Fort Alexandria, on the Fraser River south of #Quesnel, the men of the HBC Brigades made their way east and south through beautiful grasslands to Drowned Horse Lake, where in the 1820s a herd of horses fell through the ice. #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades #WestOfTheMountains nancymargueriteanderson.com/br

  6. THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
    The guide in one of the boats travelling up the Fraser River toward home #FortStJames was shot and wounded by a First Nations man near the #Quesnel River. Alexis Belanger died a slow, agonizing death at Fort Alexandria. #TheHBCBrigades #Journeys #WestOfTheMountains nancymargueriteanderson.com/al