The fur trade fort and settlement at Colville was a bridge between the Columbia River world and the interior routes into what is now British Columbia. This Indigenous corridor served both as a travel route and as a kinship space, where Métis and mixed-ancestry families built community over time.

The storymap traces these connections, drawing on the movement of people, families, and trade to show how Métis presence took root across the region.

Explore the storymap: Colville as a Bridge: Kinship, Movement, and Métis Presence

This Project has been made possible in part by the Documentary Heritage Communities Program offered by Library and Archives Canada Ce projet a été rendu possible en partie grâce au Programme pour les collectivités du patrimoine documentaire offert par Bibliothèque et Archives Canada.