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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Norway House fire

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 25, 2020 Hudson's Bay Company, York Factory Express
Norway House fire

I am proofing my York Factory Express manuscript, which is an interesting process. It is a chance to catch errors, and I found one. This is what I said in…

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A Look-Back at James Birnie’s life

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 4, 2020 Fur Trade History, James and Charlot Birnie of Cathlamet
A Look-Back at James Birnie’s life

So, in 1846, James Birnie retired, a disappointed man, after 28 years of working in the fur trade of the North West Company and the Hudson’s Bay Company. How did…

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Jason Allard’s Stories of his Father

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 30, 2018 Hudson's Bay Company, Metis in the West
Jason Allard’s Stories of his Father

Jason Ovide Allard grew up in the HBC, at Forts Langley and Yale. His father was a Canadien named Ovid Allard, who had several Indigenous wives. Jason’s mother was an…

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Alexander Caulfield Anderson at Lachine

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 17, 2015 A Literary A. C. Anderson, Fur Trade History
Alexander Caulfield Anderson at Lachine

Alexander Caulfield Anderson was one of the most significant men of his time (the 1840’s) in the early history of what later became British Columbia, and so I thought some…

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