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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Christmas Celebrations

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson January 2, 2021 Fur Trade History, Hudson's Bay Company

There is one set of Christmas celebrations that I have forgotten to include in my recent Christmas and New Years posts, and that is those of Thomas Lowe, at Fort…

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Fort Taku

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 27, 2020 Fort Victoria stories, Hudson's Bay Company
Fort Taku

  Fort Durham, also called Fort Taku, was built by the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1840, on what is called Taku Harbour, in Juneau, Alaska. It only stood for three…

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Thomas Lowe and the York Factory Express

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 2, 2019 Hudson's Bay Company, York Factory Express
Thomas Lowe and the York Factory Express

Thomas Lowe worked for the Hudson’s Bay Company from 1842 to his retirement in 1849, and he kept journals of his experiences in the Columbia district the entire time he…

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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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The Fraser Canyon War

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 7, 2018 "The Brigades", Brigade Trails
The Fraser Canyon War

I have to re-write the last two chapters of my brigades book because I fell into a story I had not researched nor discovered until now. Why had I not…

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