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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Collin’s Gulch

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 28, 2017 "The Brigades", Brigade Trails
Collin’s Gulch

In 1849, Deputy-Governor Eden Colvile traveled into the New Caledonia by the Peace River route. As he said in his letter to Sir J. H. Pelly, written from Fort Victoria…

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Packing in British Columbia

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 29, 2017 "The Brigades", Brigade Trails
Packing in British Columbia

I am going to tell you a story. In 1859, when Royal Engineer Lieutenant Spencer Palmer rode across the Tulameen Plateau to Campement des Femmes with Angus McDonald of Fort…

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The Road Crew

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson April 29, 2017 "The Brigades", Brigade Trails
The Road Crew

  I sometimes work with a researcher who does not listen, and it becomes very difficult to have to explain, once again, that the information he/she is presenting me is…

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Maypole Tree

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 16, 2016 A Literary A. C. Anderson
Maypole Tree

In late May, 1846, Alexander Caulfield Anderson set out from Fort Langley on his return journey to Kamloops, across the range of mountains that separated Fort Langley from the interior…

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