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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John Whalika

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 22, 2020 James and Charlot Birnie of Cathlamet, Natives in the Fur Trade
John Whalika

Who was John Whalika? He was one of my great-great-grandfather’s First Nations slaves — a Haida man who James Birnie rescued from the Indian slave trade that flourished up and…

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Artifacts

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 20, 2019 Hudson's Bay Company, Metis in the West
Artifacts

Many are the historical artifacts that can be found among descendants of Hudson’s Bay Company employees, but for James Birnie and Alexander Caulfield Anderson descendants, our ancestors’s fur trade artifacts…

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Charlot Birnie

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 5, 2016 James and Charlot Birnie of Cathlamet
Charlot Birnie

It will shock the descendants of James and Charlot Birnie to know this: that on James Birnie’s return to the Columbia district in 1826 with the incoming York Factory Express,…

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James Birnie, 1826

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 9, 2015 "York Factory Express", James and Charlot Birnie of Cathlamet
James Birnie, 1826

My great-great-grandfather was a member of the 1826 York Factory Express journey that crossed the Rocky Mountains from the Columbia River to Hudson Bay and return. I have known this…

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