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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. .

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