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- Title: Cariboo Mountains from Bridge at Tete' Juane Cache
- Description: Canadian writer Howard O'Hagan published the novel "Tay John" in 1939, named from an Anglicized form of Tête Jaune. The narrative is a mixture of fur-trapping frontier myths, indigenous tales, and the history of Jasper National Park in Alberta. The novel became popular in Canadian literature courses across Canada and was read by this writer during childhood. As one of our secondary stops along our expedition journey, it was a goal to reach this location. In the late 1700s, Pierre Bostonais, better known as Tête Jaune, was an Iroquois Métis trapper, fur trader, and explorer who worked for the North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company. His nickname means 'yellow head' in French and was given to him because of his blond hair. Pierre led a brigade of Hudson's Bay men into this area in December 1819, and encountered the Secwepemc people. Pierre soon moved his cache (fur-trading stores and base camp) to a Secwepemc fishing village on the Fraser just upriver from this bridge. He and his family were killed by members of the Dunneza in 1828 in retaliation for the Iroquois encroachment into their territory on the Smoke River.
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- Added: Jun 29, 2023
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