The pathfinder A.C. Anderson's journeys in the West

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Fifteen years before the 1858 Fraser River gold rush, a Hudsons Bay Company clerk named Alexander Caulfield Anderson threaded his way through mountain passes and down rapids-filled rivers in search of a safe all-British route through the mountains that separated the HBC fort at Kamloops from Fort Langley on the Pacific coast. Eventually, Anderson discovered four routes, succeeding where Alexander Mackenzie and Simon Fraser before him had failed. Without his explorations, historian Derek Pethick once wrote, British Columbia may never have come into being or become a part of the Dominion of Canada. For Anderson, the cross-country expeditions he undertook were welcome antidotes to a fur-trade life that wasnt quite what hed expected it to be. By the time he joined, in 1831, the fur trade was in fact a tightly controlled business that was very different from the adventurous trade that had inspired him. But though he may not have had his dream life, his spirit of adventure kept him going. As explorer, map-maker, artist and writer, he created a wealth of information to guide those of his time and far beyond, and his work—first in the fur trade, then in the communities in which he lived, and finally as Fisheries Inspector and Indian Reserve Commissioner for British Columbia—was always aimed at improving the future of the people he lived among.
Author(s): Nancy Marguerite Anderson
Document: Book · Paperback · CIRC [ 0 ]
Edition: 1st Edition
Published: 2011
Physical Description: 239 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 23 cm
Genre: Biographies
Contents:

The Promise of the Anderson-Seton Family From Lachine House to Fort Vancouver, 1831-32 Hostilities on the Northwest Coast, 1833-34 The Wreck of the Hojunmaru, 1833-34 Relocating Olf Fort Simpson, 1834 The Promise of the Fur Trade, 1835-36 The Fraser's Lake Post, 1837-41 Cowlitz Farm and Fort Nisqually, 1840-42 The York Factory Express, 1842 The Siberia of the Fur Trade, 1842-43 Agriculture at Fort Alexandria, 1843-44 Landslides and Salmon Runs, 1844-45 The Fur Trade, 1845-46 The Search for a New Brigade Trail, 1846 The Return Journey over the Mountains, 1846 The New Chief Trader, 1846-47 THe Anderson's River Trail, 1847-48 A Year of Great Changes, 1847-48 Fort Colvile, 1849-50 Fort Colvile Brigades, 1850-51 No Future in His Past, 1851-52 Life aand Death in New Oregon Territory, 1853-57 The Curse of the Fur Trade, 1858-60 "And I Say You Lie, Sir!", 1859 The Unsettled Settler, 1861-76 The Indian Reserve Commission on the Coast, 1876-77 Hawking about the Country, 1877-83 Inspector of Fisheries, 1876-83 Cross the Dark River, 1884
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Anderson, Alexander Caulfield 1814-1884, Anderson, Alexander Caulfield, 1814-1884, Anderson, Alexander Caulfield, 1814-1884 Travel Northwest, Canadian, Anderson, Alexander Caulfield, 1814-1884 Voyages Nord-Ouest canadien, Biographies, British Columbia, British Columbia Biography, British Columbia Discovery and exploration, Canada Canadian Northwest

 

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