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 McLoughlin’s End

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 9, 2021 Following A.C.Anderson around British Columbia, Hudson's Bay Company

The end of Fort McLoughlin’s reign on the northwest Coast has an interesting twist to it, which includes a sad story about a man I have written about in two…

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Betsy Birnie

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson February 29, 2020 Hudson's Bay Company, James and Charlot Birnie of Cathlamet
Betsy Birnie

Betsy was the eldest daughter of James and Charlot Birnie, born in 1822 at the North West Company’s Spokane House. She was a toddler at Fort Okanogan. When she was…

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James Birnie, Alexander Caulfield Anderson, and Reverend Herbert Beaver

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 4, 2017 A Literary A. C. Anderson, James and Charlot Birnie of Cathlamet
James Birnie, Alexander Caulfield Anderson, and Reverend Herbert Beaver

In this section of the James and Charlot Birnie thread, we left Birnie’s story as he and his family were sailing south from his posting at Fort Simpson in 1836.…

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John McIntosh, HBC

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson February 21, 2016 Deaths and Murders, Metis in the West
John McIntosh, HBC

HBC trader Alexander Caulfield Anderson knew many of today’s historical figures, but not all of them were men to be proud of. One of those was clerk John McIntosh, who…

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James Birnie, 1828-1836

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 29, 2015 Hudson's Bay Company, James and Charlot Birnie of Cathlamet
James Birnie, 1828-1836

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…

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