NANCY MARGUERITE ANDERSON

An Accidental Historian, writing about the people who worked in the Territory West of the Rocky Mountains before 1858 — so many good stories!

Thomas Lowe

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 22, 2019 Fort Victoria stories, Hudson's Bay Company

I have a few favourite characters among the enormous cluster of persons who lived West of the Rockies Mountains in the 1840s. Thomas Lowe is one of them. He was…

Reverend Staines

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson February 17, 2018 Fort Victoria stories, Fur Trade History

In 1850, James Robert Anderson, and his older sister, Eliza Charlotte, traveled over the brigade trail from Fort Colvile with their father, Alexander Caulfield Anderson, to attend the school in…

James Lowe’s 1853 tour

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson January 6, 2018 Fort Victoria stories, Fur Trade History

James Lowe was the younger brother of Thomas Lowe, who in 1849 retired from the Hudson’s Bay Company at Fort Vancouver, and established himself as a store-keeper in Oregon Territory…

Charles John Griffin

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson December 5, 2015 Fort Victoria stories, Hudson's Bay Company

I first ran into Charles John Griffin in the York Factory Express journals of 1849, when he came into the country West of the Rocky Mountains with John Charles’s incoming…

Governor Blanshard

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 15, 2015 Fort Victoria stories, Fur Trade History

Young James Anderson, A.C. Anderson’s son, was about ten years old when he attended the school inside the walls of Fort Victoria [Victoria, B.C.]. In his memoirs, he wrote about…