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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Fort Simpson

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 30, 2021 Following A.C.Anderson around British Columbia, Hudson's Bay Company
Fort Simpson

Fort Simpson, on the Northwest Coast, was built by Peter Skene Ogden and his men after the Russian fur traders had turned them away from the mouth of the Stikine…

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Fort McLoughlin’s End

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 9, 2021 Following A.C.Anderson around British Columbia, Hudson's Bay Company

The end of Fort McLoughlin’s reign on the northwest Coast has an interesting twist to it, which includes a sad story about a man I have written about in two…

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Peace comes to Fort McLoughlin

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 21, 2021 Following A.C.Anderson around British Columbia, Hudson's Bay Company
Peace comes to Fort McLoughlin

Peace came to Fort McLoughlin when Donald Manson, the man in charge of the HBC fort, allowed some of the First Nations men who had besieged them into the fort…

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Battle at Fort McLoughlin

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 26, 2021 Following A.C.Anderson around British Columbia, Hudson's Bay Company
Battle at Fort McLoughlin

We ended the last post in this series with the realization that instantly, and without warning, the HBC’s northwest coast post of Fort McLoughlin, on Milbank Sound, was under attack…

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Building Fort McLoughlin

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson April 17, 2021 Following A.C.Anderson around British Columbia, Hudson's Bay Company
Building Fort McLoughlin

And so the Hudson’s Bay Company men have arrived in McLoughlin Bay, in what the HBC men on the coast called Milbanke Sound, on the North West Coast. They have…

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