Colonial Despatches

The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871

Hat Creek

Hat Creek flows into the Bonaparte River, just north of Cache Creek, in British Columbia's southern interior. Douglas expended £100 in 1860 to open a trail to to link Lytton to Bonaparte River, by way of the Hat River.1

1. G. P. V. Akrigg and H. B. Akrigg, British Columbia Chronicle, 1847-1871 (Victoria: Discovery Press, 1977), 196.

Mentions of this place in the documents

McClean, Chief Trader Donald
Douglas, Chief Factor Governor Vice-Admiral Sir James to Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle Henry Pelham Fiennes 16 July 1861, CO 60:10, no. 8719, 301.

People in this document

Douglas, James

Places in this document

Bonaparte River

British Columbia