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!

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John Whalika

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 22, 2020 James and Charlot Birnie of Cathlamet, Natives in the Fur Trade
John Whalika

Who was John Whalika? He was one of my great-great-grandfather’s First Nations slaves — a Haida man who James Birnie rescued from the Indian slave trade that flourished up and…

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“Indian Mounds”

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 11, 2018 Fur Trade History, Natives in the Fur Trade
“Indian Mounds”

In following up another story, I discovered this one on “Indian Mounds” on a river that was supposed to be called the Deschutes, or “Falls River.” This river was supposed…

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Nicknames

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 12, 2017 "The Brigades", Natives in the Fur Trade
Nicknames

It was a tradition among the voyageurs to use nicknames. As all of us who read a little British Columbia history know, the Native chief Tranquille, who frequented the Kamloops…

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Natives in the Kamloops Post Journals

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 5, 2017 "The Brigades", Natives in the Fur Trade
Natives in the Kamloops Post Journals

For about five years, from August 1850 to June 1855, Paul Fraser kept the Fort Kamloops post journals. The records are not complete: nor did I copy them all out,…

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Little Stories from Scraps of an old Manuscript

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson February 27, 2016 A Literary A. C. Anderson, Natives in the Fur Trade
Little Stories from Scraps of an old Manuscript

Hidden away in the B.C. Archives is a magical little document written by Alexander Caulfield Anderson, in which he writes stories of the things he learned from the Natives that…

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