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This is a letter sent by Arthur Sleigh to the secretary of state for the colonies proposing the creation of a post office mail route to be set up in British Columbia, and requesting funding for it. He proposes a system based on ponies and horses to…

This is a photograph, taken between 1866-1870, of Indians at Lytton, situated at the junction of the Thompson River and Fraser River, in British Columbia. The Indian Chief is in a Buckskin coat and fur hat, surrounded by fellow villagers with babies,…