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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Rounding Cape Horn

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson January 27, 2024 "Headquarters", London Ship
Rounding Cape Horn

In this series of blogposts, we are following the Steamship Beaver on her first and only sailing journey from London to the Pacific Northwest and Fort Vancouver! Rounding Cape Horn…

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Thomas Lowe Rounds the Horn

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson February 6, 2021 Hudson's Bay Company, London Ship
Thomas Lowe Rounds the Horn

Thomas Lowe has set sail on the ship, Vancouver, which (in my last blogpost) has just sailed past Falkland Islands on its way southward, sailing through the waters of the…

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Thomas Lowe sails the Southern Atlantic

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson December 13, 2020 Hudson's Bay Company, London Ship
Thomas Lowe sails the Southern Atlantic

Thomas Lowe has survived the traditional shaving that results from crossing the equator on a sailing vessel in 1841, and now has the rounding of Cape Horn, at the southern…

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