The Pioneers of British Columbia

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Hobnobbing with a Countess and Other Okanagan Adventures

In 1891, Alice Barrett moved from Port Dover, Ontario, to the Okanagan Valley to keep house for her brother and uncle. She soon married Harold Parke, a former NWMP officer, and spent the next decade recording ...

This Blessed Wilderness

By (author) Jean M. Cole
Categories: History
Series: The Pioneers of British Columbia

The twenty-five years between 1821 and 1846 were turbulent but important years in the history of the fur trade in the Pacific Northwest: 1821 saw the merger of the Hudson’s Bay Company and the North ...

Fort Langley Journals, 1827-30

These journals comprise one of the principal sources of information on early European settlement in BC and provide a remarkable and unique record of the establishment of Fort Langley. Although the journals ...