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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Measles and Dysentery

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 1, 2020 Hudson's Bay Company, York Factory Express
Measles and Dysentery

I wrote about the 1847-1848 measles epidemic in my first book, The Pathfinder, in which I said: Measles began to sicken a few Dakelh around the fort [Fort Alexandria, Fraser…

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Betsy Birnie

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson February 29, 2020 Hudson's Bay Company, James and Charlot Birnie of Cathlamet
Betsy Birnie

Betsy was the eldest daughter of James and Charlot Birnie, born in 1822 at the North West Company’s Spokane House. She was a toddler at Fort Okanogan. When she was…

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James Birnie, Alexander Caulfield Anderson, and Reverend Herbert Beaver

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 4, 2017 A Literary A. C. Anderson, James and Charlot Birnie of Cathlamet
James Birnie, Alexander Caulfield Anderson, and Reverend Herbert Beaver

In this section of the James and Charlot Birnie thread, we left Birnie’s story as he and his family were sailing south from his posting at Fort Simpson in 1836.…

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Measles in the Columbia district, summer to fall 1847

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson January 16, 2016 "The Brigades", York Factory Express
Measles in the Columbia district, summer to fall 1847

In my first book, The Pathfinder, I wrote a little of the measles epidemic in the Columbia district, that finally reached Fort Alexandria [in central British Columbia] in January 1848.…

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Waiilatpu Massacre

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson January 9, 2016 "The Brigades", York Factory Express
Waiilatpu Massacre

From my first book, The Pathfinder, I post the brief introduction to the 1847 measles epidemic in the Columbia district and New Caledonia [British Columbia], that eventually resulted in the…

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