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!

Grasses

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 27, 2015 Brigade Trails, Fur Trade History

Grasses: An unlikely subject, perhaps, but one that is becoming of interest to some historians West of the Rocky Mountains. But while I researched my upcoming brigades book, I discovered…

Alexander Caulfield Anderson at Lachine

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 17, 2015 A Literary A. C. Anderson, Fur Trade History

Alexander Caulfield Anderson was one of the most significant men of his time (the 1840’s) in the early history of what later became British Columbia, and so I thought some…

Chilcotin Post

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 3, 2015 Fur Trade History, Hudson's Bay Company

The Chilcotin post, first built in 1829 as a temporary post and completed at a later date, stood at the junction of the Chilco and Chilcotin Rivers and was an…

Governor Blanshard

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 15, 2015 Fort Victoria stories, Fur Trade History

Young James Anderson, A.C. Anderson’s son, was about ten years old when he attended the school inside the walls of Fort Victoria [Victoria, B.C.]. In his memoirs, he wrote about…

Club Law

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 18, 2015 Fur Trade History

In 1841, while he was in charge of Fort Nisqually, Alexander Caulfield Anderson got into a little trouble with Chief Factor John McLoughlin. Anderson had quarreled with a French-Canadian employee,…