The Pathfinder: A.C. Anderson's Journeys in the West [Paperback]

Nancy Marguerite Anderson (Author)

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Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Co. Ltd. (Nov 10 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1926936825
ISBN-13: 978-1926936826
Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.2 x 2 cm
Shipping Weight: 386 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #447,060 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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An engaging biography of the man who found the route later used by prospectors in the 1858 gold rush

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Fifteen years before the 1858 Fraser River gold rush, a Hudson's 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 wasn't quite what he'd 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.

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