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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James Birnie, Alexander Caulfield Anderson, and Reverend Herbert Beaver

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 4, 2017 Alexander Caulfield Anderson, James and Charlot Birnie of Cathlamet
James Birnie, Alexander Caulfield Anderson, and Reverend Herbert Beaver

In this section of the James and Charlot Birnie thread, we left Birnie’s story as he and his family were sailing south from his posting at Fort Simpson in 1836.…

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John McIntosh, HBC

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson February 21, 2016 Deaths and Murders, Metis in the West
John McIntosh, HBC

HBC trader Alexander Caulfield Anderson knew many of today’s historical figures, but not all of them were men to be proud of. One of those was clerk John McIntosh, who…

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James Birnie, 1828-1836

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 29, 2015 Hudson's Bay Company Employees, James and Charlot Birnie of Cathlamet
James Birnie, 1828-1836

James Birnie had joined the free wheeling North West Company in 1818, and when in 1821 it merged with the Hudson’s Bay Company under the latter’s name, he came with…

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Fabulous Sam Black

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 25, 2014 Deaths and Murders, Fur Trade History
Fabulous Sam Black

I know I have used the word “fabulous” before when I describe a fur trader. But some are fabulously interesting, and Chief Trader Sam Black is certainly a member of…

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Why does a Woman Writer write exclusively about Men?

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson May 11, 2014 Fur Trade History, Writing
Why does a Woman Writer write exclusively about Men?

It is a good question, and I have been asked it a few times. The answer is not at all complicated: I cannot write what I do not know. As…

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