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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Bridge River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 26, 2017 Brigade Trails, Following A.C.Anderson around British Columbia
Bridge River

I find that, entirely by accident, two threads (stories) I am telling merge at the same place: at what the HBC men called Bridge River! But, as you can see…

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The Road Crew

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson April 29, 2017 "That Infernal Trail", Brigade Trails
The Road Crew

  I sometimes work with a researcher who does not listen, and it becomes very difficult to have to explain, once again, that the information he/she is presenting me is…

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Brigade Journey North, from the Similkameen Forks

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson February 4, 2017 HBC Transportation Systems, The OId Brigade Trail
Brigade Journey North, from the Similkameen Forks

The junction of the Similkameen River with the Okanogan was, from the early days of the HBC in the Canadian Okanagan, known as the Similkameen Forks. In later years, Anderson…

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The Brigade Trails, Kamloops to Okanogan House

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson May 16, 2015 "That Infernal Trail", The OId Brigade Trail
The Brigade Trails, Kamloops to Okanogan House

  I am continuing the outgoing express journals on their way south from the Thompson River post at Kamloops, through the Okanagan to Okanogan House. You will notice the two…

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Kamloops to Campement a la Carabine, Copper Creek

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson January 13, 2015 Brigade Trails, Following A.C.Anderson around British Columbia
Kamloops to Campement a la Carabine, Copper Creek

This post has been updated and rewritten. From November 1842 to April 1848, Alexander Caulfield Anderson was in charge of Fort Alexandria, on the upper Fraser River, north of Soda…

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