Title:
History of the Northwest Coast: Victoria, British Columbia : ms., 1878
Creator/Contributor:
Anderson, Alexander Caulfield, 1814-1884, creator
Abstract:
Anderson went out to Fort Vancouver in November, 1832, in the service of the Hudon's Bay Company, and remained in the Pacific
Northwest the rest of his life. His narrative is an account of the Company's operations on the Pacific Coast, with brief sketches
of many men prominent in the history of the North West and Hudson's Bay Companies.
Included is a copy of his journal of an exploration of May 15-June 9, 1846, to open a route from Fort Alexander, the lowest
post on the Fraser River of New Caledonia, to Fort Langley, on the lower Fraser; and a journal, May 19-June 11, 1847, concerning
an expedition from Kamloops to Langley via Thompson and Fraser rivers. Official letters relating to these expeditions are
also copied, and some autograph notes by John Stuart, founder of New Caledonia, written in Scotland, 1842.
The first 240 pages are a dictation chiefly recorded (with some signed comments) by Thomas H. Long. The rest, in Anderson's
own hand, was sent to Bancroft later in 1878. The Ms. incorporates copies of letters pertaining to British Columbia affairs
written as late as 1862, some in consequence of a handbook Anderson published; and interleaved are three letters from Anderson
to H.H. Bancroft, 1878-1879.
Date:
1878 (issued)
Subject:
n-cn-bc
Travel
British Columbia -- Description and travel
Colombie-Britannique -- Descriptions et voyages
British Columbia
North West Company.
Hudson's Bay Company.
Hudson's Bay Company.
North West Company.
Note:
Also available on microfilm.
Forms part of the Hubert Howe Bancroft Collection.
Type:
Diaries.
Overland journals-1846.
Autobiographies.
Physical Description:
print
[285] pages ; 32 cm
partial microfilm reel (183 exposures) : negative (Rich. 107:16) and positive (Film P-C, reel 1)
Language:
English
Identifier:
BANC MSS P-C 2LOCAL
Origin:
British Columbia