Branwen C. Patenaude’s Forgotten Highway: Stikine, Dease and Liard traces the historic river and overland fur brigade route linking the Pacific watershed of the Stikine River to the Arctic drainage of the Liard via Dease Lake. Patenaude chronicles nineteenth-century Hudson's Bay Company expeditions, detailing how fortified trade stations and supply depots were established across traditional Tahltan and Kaska lands. The text documents the pack trails and freight corridors connecting Dease Lake, Porter Landing, Laketon, McDame, Hyland Post, and Lower Post, examining the indispensable labor of Indigenous guides, packers, and boatmen prior to the twentieth-century construction of the Stewart-Cassiar Highway.

British Columbia Stikine Region, Dease Lake (B.C.), Frontier and pioneer life British Columbia Stikine, Fur trade British Columbia History, History, Hudson's Bay Company History, Hyland Post (B.C.), Laketon (B.C.), Lower Post (B.C.), McDame (B.C.), Porter Landing (B.C.), Stikine Region (B.C.) History, Trails British Columbia History

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.