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!

Two Canoes: West from Norway House

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 12, 2016 "Two Canoes", Fur Trade History

In this post we will follow John Work and Peter Skene Ogden, as they make their way from Norway House, on Playgreen Lake, toward Cumberland House on the Saskatchewan River.…

Two Canoes: West from Oxford House

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson May 14, 2016 "Two Canoes", Fur Trade History

I am finding the journals of these two canoe journeys very interesting, and so will continue this thread a little sooner than I might otherwise have done. It is…

Salmon Runs, 1843 to 1858

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson December 20, 2015 Fur Trade History, Natives in the Fur Trade

As a BC-ite and fur trade historian of sorts, I have been brought up on the notion that the salmon runs were regular events, and that only once in every…

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…