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!

Blackeye Folklore

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 25, 2015 Explorations, Natives in the Fur Trade

At the turn of the century, a small group of Athapascan warriors from the Chilcotins crossed the Fraser River and made their way south, toward Kamloops Lake. They knew they…

The Nicola Valley

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson December 13, 2014 "The HBC Brigades", Brigade Trails

You will see, above, a portion of Alexander Caulfield Anderson’s 1867 Map of British Columbia. At the top is Kamloops Lake, with the Kamloops post perched at its east end.…