Kootenae House Traditional Cache
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Another cache to introduce cachers to an important Canadian historical site.
Around 1806 David Thompson, with his bride Charlotte Small, followed Metis guides along a First Nations route from Rocky Mountain House. This route eventually took them over Howse Pass and down the Blaeberry River drainage to reach the Columbia River and valley near Golden. Once in the valley they paddled upstream to Invermere and established Kootenae House on the west side of the valley near the location of the settlement of the "Katamukinik" ( "the earlier people" ) near the mouth of Toby Creek and Columbia River. Relations with the First Nations were good, and Kootenae House soon became an important trading post for furs and horses and it was also used by Thompson as a base to further explore the Columbia Valley and surrounding watersheds. The Katamukinik were the first Ktunaxa ("Too nah hah") peoples to make a permanent settlement in the Northern Pucells, and were the first to discover the Purcell Mountains and use the Columbia River and Valley. It is now an official historic site managed by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada
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