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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Thomas Lowe, 1844

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson May 28, 2023 "Headquarters", London Ship No Comments
Thomas Lowe, 1844

Thomas Lowe kept a series of journals of his time at Fort Vancouver, and they contain a great deal of information about the running of that Pacific Coast headquarters. In…

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Anderson at the First Fort Nisqually

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson May 7, 2023 Following A.C.Anderson around British Columbia, Fur Trade History No Comments
Anderson at the First Fort Nisqually

In early to mid- October of 1841, clerk Alexander Caulfield Anderson finally arrived at the first Fort Nisqually, built in spring, 1833, on Puget Sound. For the fort’s early history,…

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Home from Fraser’s River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson April 22, 2023 Fur Trade History, Hudson's Bay Company
Home from Fraser’s River

For the men of the 1824 Expedition, making their way home from Fraser’s River was a far easier journey than making their way to the river, via the clogged Nicomekl…

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Puget Sound

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson April 1, 2023 Fur Trade History, Hudson's Bay Company
Puget Sound

In late 1824, a group of HBC men made a boat journey from Fort George [Astoria] to the Fraser River, via the Nicomekl River, a stream that seems to run…

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The HBC ship Cadboro

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson March 4, 2023 "Headquarters", Fort Victoria stories
The HBC ship Cadboro

It is November 1844, and we are continuing Thomas Lowe’s stories of the happenings at Fort Vancouver, the HBC headquarters near the mouth of the Columbia River — one hundred…

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