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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A Long Winding Road

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 7, 2021 Fort Victoria stories, Headquarters
A Long Winding Road

A long winding road through history must be travelled before the Hudson’s Bay Company could build a new headquarters, on the southern end of Vancouver’s Island: but it was travelled,…

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Locating Fort Victoria

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 17, 2021 "Headquarters", Fort Victoria stories
Locating Fort Victoria

In March 1843, James Douglas was placed in charge of the building of the new post of Fort Victoria, on the southern tip of Vancouver’s Island. Many years of discussion…

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Fort Victoria Murderers 2

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson May 22, 2021 "Headquarters", Deaths and Murders, Fort Victoria stories
Fort Victoria Murderers 2

 I ended the first section of this blogpost with the information that when Governor George Simpson arrived in the anchorage at Fort Stikine, he experienced a bad feeling. Both the…

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Fort Victoria Murderers

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson May 15, 2021 "Headquarters", Deaths and Murders, Fort Victoria stories
Fort Victoria Murderers

I wonder how many people today know that Fort Victoria was built, in part, by a group of five murderers from Fort Stikine? Let me tell you the story. There…

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Merry Christmas

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson December 19, 2020 Fort Victoria stories, Hudson's Bay Company
Merry Christmas

It is Christmas Day at the end of this week, and for the fun of it I am reporting on as many fur trade Christmases as I can find. We…

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