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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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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The Louchameen [Zouchameen] Road

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 22, 2017 "The Brigades", Brigade Trails
The Louchameen [Zouchameen] Road

In late 1858, Lieutenant Henry Spencer Palmer of the Royal Engineers arrived at Fort Victoria with the second batch of soldiers. By late summer of 1859, he was assigned to…

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Donald Manson’s Retirement

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 17, 2017 "The Brigades", Hudson's Bay Company
Donald Manson’s Retirement

Donald Manson was born in 1800, in Scotland, and worked for the Hudson’s Bay Company until 1857, when he retired. This is what Bruce Watson says of him in his…

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The Kettle Valley

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 10, 2017 "The Brigades", Brigade Trails
The Kettle Valley

In 1849 the Fort Colvile brigades under Alexander Caulfield Anderson came north to Kamloops, where they joined the New Caledonia brigades on their journey to Fort Hope. However, while they…

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Angus McDonald

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson May 6, 2017 "The Brigades", Hudson's Bay Company
Angus McDonald

When Chief Trader Alexander Caulfield Anderson was transferred to the charge of Fort Colvile in summer 1848, his clerk was a young Scotsman named Angus McDonald. Angus was born in…

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