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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Fort McLoughlin

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson March 20, 2021 Alexander Caulfield Anderson, Hudson's Bay Company No Comments
Fort McLoughlin

Fort McLoughlin was a Hudson’s Bay Company post, built on what the HBC men called “Milbanke Sound,” on the Northwest Coast, in 1833. Alexander Caulfield Anderson had only just arrived…

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George Traill Allan

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 9, 2019 Hudson's Bay Company, York Factory Express
George Traill Allan

In 1841, George Traill Allan took out the York Factory Express to Hudson Bay, ten years after he had come into the territory in the 1831 Columbia Express. He is…

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York Factory Express: Carlton House to Fort Pitt

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson April 16, 2016 Hudson's Bay Company, York Factory Express
York Factory Express: Carlton House to Fort Pitt

George Traill Allan was a tiny man, only about five feet tall, and delicately built. Yet, he joined the “rough and tumble of the fur trade,” and had an important…

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James Birnie, 1828-1836

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 29, 2015 Hudson's Bay Company, 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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