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ALEXANDER LESLIE FORTUNE

* ‘Alexander Leslie Fortune was
the fiTst settler in the North
® Okanagan, but he's best remem-
ma bered for his memoirs of his
Mm experiences as an Overlander in
Be the great trek of 1862.° ..- .
. The Overlanders were the’
m pioneers who set out from east-
Sern Canada to blaze a trai] by
m land to the gold fields of the
mm Cariboo. Fortune was an un-
mm likely sort to be among them.
Bom in 1831. in Huntington,
Quebec he had been intended
@.for the. ministry but his health
# broke after two years of study
sat Toronto, which was- hardly
the background for a trailblazer,
=: He was 31 and seven months
m married when he joined the
m Approximately 138 adventurers
m who set out to cross Canada on
.a route that had known only a
e-few courageous fur traders in
& the past. It was May when they
. slaried from Fort Garry with
| their oxen and wagons and they
were bouyed with ‘hopes of. find-
| ing their fortunes in the’ Cari-
> boo gold fields. By the time they
= reached Fort Edmonton on July
#21 they knew handships,-but it
a was nothing compared to what
m lay sheed.. os
They forded the McLeod River
mand the Athabaska River, push-
ed thelr way to Jasper House.
and finaly reached Tete Juane
m Cache on August 27, short of
@food and both men and animals.
exhausted. The Overlanders
esplit here Into two parties, one
wSroup to proceed by the Fraser.
River, the other along the North
Thompson to Fort Kamloops.
mrortune chose the latter group
astrugeling through dense forests,
mover high hills and deep gullies,
and building rafts on the
mChompson, rafts that were often -
merecked on rocks, and that
aimed the life of one of the

‘When . starvation threatened
mnt turned to an Indian Village
mynly to find its inhabitants wip-
md out by smallpox, They lived
‘our days on raw potatoes, scant

fare to bolster them for an
eight-mile portage. But they
reached Kamloops on Ostober
14, 1862,

Fortune weft into the Cariboo

‘| but fortune didn’t smile on him:.

So he rafted down the Fraser io
Alexandria and with two com-
panions hiked through the Chil-
cotin to Sella Coola where
eventually he found sea passage
fo Fort Rupert and Victoria. He

‘tried the gold fields again with.

aut success then settled in the
Spallumcheen Valley in 1868
building a home near ' where
Enderby now stands. He brought
his wife out in 1874,

They lived there as pioneers
of such high regard that after
Fortune died in 1915 a monu-

Teent was erected in his honour. |

His greatest monument was his
memoirs. ‘however,’ which’ he
wrote about 1903, a valuable
record of one of the most fam-
ous pages in British Columbia’s
history. .

| by ABE

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might apply to his concept of air
travel but it doesn’t follow
through on his concept of high.

j | ways. At least no én highway No.

16 western division,

Just the other day a local speed

yi artist lost the hub of his wagon

as it got caught on the side of a

i |bailie bridge. He didn’t hear the

wagon being practically torn apart

#|for the noise of his horses hooves
on the bridge deck,

Tf you get the. impresaion that
I think our highway is still in the

|| horse and buggy: stage, while our

highwayman has flipped into the
space age, you're right, ©
“This is the age of- speed and
progress, “T can hear our erst-
while astronaut saying. Well,
we've heard this tune since away
back in the fifties, Highway No.
16 will be finished by 1960 ‘wag
his proud boast, way back when,
then it was 62, then 64, The high-
way between Terrace and Cedar-
vale was finished the day the
first bridge broke in two.
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