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!

Closing Fort Simpson

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson February 2, 2019 "The Pathfinder: A.C. Anderson's Journeys in the West.", Following A.C.Anderson around British Columbia

I want to make it clear immediately that the Fort Simpson I am speaking of here is NOT the Fort Simpson that stood on the banks of the Mackenzie River.…

James Birnie, 1828-1836

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 29, 2015 Hudson's Bay Company Employees, James and Charlot Birnie of Cathlamet

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…