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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Fort Durham rises

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson January 15, 2022 "Headquarters", Hudson's Bay Company
Fort Durham rises

And so, in this blogpost, the HBC men under Chief Factor James Douglas have finally found a good location for Fort Durham, which would become the northernmost HBC post on…

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Fort Durham

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 27, 2021 "Headquarters", Fort Victoria stories
Fort Durham

I am putting this Fort Durham series in front of a few histories that came earlier (ie. Fort Simpson, and the Stikine River story), because Thomas Lowe is approaching the…

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Thomas Lowe at Sea

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 10, 2020 Hudson's Bay Company, London Ship
Thomas Lowe at Sea

Thomas Lowe joined the fur trade of the Hudson’s Bay Company from Scotland in 1841, and set off on his journey to Fort Vancouver, near the mouth of the Columbia…

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Thomas Lowe and his London Ship journey

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson September 19, 2020 HBC Transportation Systems, London Ship
Thomas Lowe and his London Ship journey

As I have already said at the beginning of this series, Thomas Lowe joined the fur trade of the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1841. In this post, and in a…

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Thomas Lowe

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 22, 2019 Fort Victoria stories, Hudson's Bay Company
Thomas Lowe

I have a few favourite characters among the enormous cluster of persons who lived West of the Rockies Mountains in the 1840s. Thomas Lowe is one of them. He was…

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  • Leaving Lachine May 21, 2022
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