NANCY MARGUERITE ANDERSON

James Birnie, 1828-1836

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 29, 2015 Hudson's Bay Company, James and Charlot Birnie of Cathlamet

James Birnie had joined the free wheeling North West Company in 1818, and when in 1821 it merged with the Hudson’s Bay Company under the latter’s name, he came with…

The Murderer

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 29, 2015 Deaths and Murders, Natives in the Fur Trade

In the memoirs of James Robert Anderson, son of Alexander Caulfield Anderson, there are the beginnings of many little stories, which I am sometimes able to develop into larger ones.…

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…

James Birnie, 1826

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 9, 2015 "York Factory Express", James and Charlot Birnie of Cathlamet

My great-great-grandfather was a member of the 1826 York Factory Express journey that crossed the Rocky Mountains from the Columbia River to Hudson Bay and return. I have known this…

John Work’s Journey to the Columbia District, 1823

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 25, 2015 "Two Canoes", "York Factory Express"

Three years before the York Factory Express existed, John Work travelled over much of their route, on his way from York Factory to Spokane House, on the Spokane River. He…