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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The Similkameen Post

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 23, 2024 "The Brigades", Anderson-Seton Family, Brigade Trails
The Similkameen Post

The HBC’s Similkameen post was not constructed until spring, 1860, yet it is very much a part of BC’s fur trade history, and, interestingly, of my own family’s history as…

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Henry Anderson

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson April 6, 2024 "The Brigades", Anderson-Seton Family, Fur Trade History
Henry Anderson

What do I write about today? The constant question, asked and answered every week! While combing through my HBC Brigade files to find a subject that I have not yet…

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Anderson at Lake Garry

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson March 11, 2023 "Journeys", Anderson-Seton Family
Anderson at Lake Garry

So let us continue James Anderson’s journey home from Montreal Island and Adelaide Peninsula, on the edge of the Arctic Ocean. On their journey south from the sea, they are…

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Anderson’s Journey Home

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson January 28, 2023 "Journeys", Anderson-Seton Family
Anderson’s Journey Home

On Friday August 10, 1855, James Anderson begins his journey home, leaving the Adelaide Peninsula behind him. With his crew, he “Left our encampment at 3 1/2 a.m. The ice…

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Anderson reaches Adelaide Peninsula

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 8, 2022 "Journeys", Anderson-Seton Family
Anderson reaches Adelaide Peninsula

In this blogpost Chief Trader James Anderson, his clerk James Green Stewart, and their party of fourteen experienced men, have reached Montreal Island, and will move on to the western…

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