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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Lillooet Lake to Fort Langley

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 6, 2018 "The Brigades", A Literary A. C. Anderson
Lillooet Lake to Fort Langley

We begin again with Alexander Caulfield Anderson’s journal of his exploration/expedition from Kamloops to Fort Langley, by what later became the Harrison-Lillooet Trail. The year is 1846, and his party…

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Beaver

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson September 15, 2018 A Literary A. C. Anderson, Fur Trade History
Beaver

So today I am going to write about the Beaver. Why? Because I now have two fur traders who are describing this animal to their London readers. Future London readers,…

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Anderson Lake to Lillooet Lake

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson September 8, 2018 "The Brigades", A Literary A. C. Anderson
Anderson Lake to Lillooet Lake

In this post we continue with the story of Alexander Caulfield Anderson’s expedition from the Kamloops post to Fort Langley in 1846. This is the first of the four “explorations”…

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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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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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