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My name is Nancy Marguerite Anderson, and I am the author of the book, The Pathfinder: A. C. Anderson’s Journeys in the West [Victoria, BC: Heritage House Publ, 2011] Anderson’s…
Read moreMore about the Anderson-Seton family — The First Generation
As long as I am telling you about Alexander Caulfield Anderson’s famous (and infamous) cousins, I might as well mention his aunts and uncles — the first generation that resulted…
Read moreFort Colvile to Boat Encampment
In his own York Factory Express journal, George Traill Allan, whose passage from Fort Nez Perces to Fort Colvile is covered in the last “chapter” of this series, wrote a…
Read moreSalish Wool Dog
In 1847, Chief Factors James Douglas and Peter Skene Ogden asked Alexander Caulfield Anderson, then Chief Trader in charge at Fort Alexandria, to make his second exploration between Kamloops and…
Read morePotatoes at Fort Alexandria
You may wonder why I am writing about a topic such as potatoes in the fur trade, but this is a subject that has caught some fur-trade-historians’ attention. Richard Mackie…
Read moreYork Factory Express: Fort Nez Perces to Fort Colvile
I learned something new last week, and it has blown me away! I am, after all, the expert on the brigade trails, am I not? And did not the outgoing York…
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