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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Grande Prairie

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 6, 2023 "The Brigades", Hudson's Bay Company
Grande Prairie

Here is another story from the Grande Prairie — yes, that place that we visited just a few short weeks ago. I found the beginnings of this in the little…

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Cheese

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 23, 2019 "The Brigades", Hudson's Bay Company
Cheese

Yes. Cheese. An odd subject, perhaps, for a fur trade blogpost, but I have found cheese mentioned at times in the list of provisions the HBC men carried across the…

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Fort Shepherd Stories

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 16, 2018 Hudson's Bay Company, Metis in the West
Fort Shepherd Stories

Well, now that I have entered the Similkameen and Kettle River areas again, it is time to relax a little and tell some stories that are just-plain-fun! So, lets look…

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Nicknames

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 12, 2017 "The Brigades", Natives in the Fur Trade
Nicknames

It was a tradition among the voyageurs to use nicknames. As all of us who read a little British Columbia history know, the Native chief Tranquille, who frequented the Kamloops…

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The Bully of Fort Nisqually

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 1, 2017 "The Brigades", Brigade Trails
The Bully of Fort Nisqually

There is another brigade trail which I keep forgetting to mention: of course, until recently I did not know a lot about it. In fact I was quite surprised, only…

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