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 Shepherd Stories

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 16, 2018 Hudson's Bay Company, Metis in the West
Fort Shepherd Stories

Well, now that I have entered the Similkameen and Kettle River areas again, it is time to relax a little and tell some stories that are just-plain-fun! So, lets look…

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James Sinclair’s letters

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 25, 2017 Hudson's Bay Company, Metis in the West
James Sinclair’s letters

I am looking at my collection of information, and realizing that much of it will never make it into any book I am writing or can write in the near…

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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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Building Fort Shepherd

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson January 21, 2017 "The Brigades", Fur Trade History
Building Fort Shepherd

In this April 1856 letter to Angus McDonald of Fort Colvile, James Douglas described the HBC buildings that were to be erected at the new Fort Shepherd, on the Columbia…

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John McKenzie Simpson

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson September 4, 2016 "The Brigades", Metis in the West
John McKenzie Simpson

Some time ago I wrote about George Stewart Simpson, son of the HBC Governor,George Simpson, and Margaret Taylor [who is traveling with Governor Simpson in my “Two Canoes” stream]. As…

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