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!

Charles John Griffin

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

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…