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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Women in the Boats

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 25, 2023 "York Factory Express", Metis in the West 13 Comments
Women in the Boats

Here is a question I often get asked (especially by women): how many women and children travelled in the York Factory Express Boats going out of, or coming into, the…

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Captain Wilkes at Fort Nisqually

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 21, 2023 A Literary A. C. Anderson, Hudson's Bay Company
Captain Wilkes at Fort Nisqually

So Captain Charles Wilkes, of the United States Exploring Expedition, has arrived at Fort Nisqually, on Puget Sound. The year is 1841, and clerk Alexander Caulfield Anderson is in charge…

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McLoughlin’s letters 1844-45

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 27, 2023 "Headquarters", Headquarters
McLoughlin’s letters 1844-45

In writing my blogpost of last week (that is, Thomas Lowe’s journal), I have become aware that I am missing John McLoughlin’s letters for the same period, and it is…

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Thomas Lowe, 1844

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson May 28, 2023 "Headquarters", London Ship
Thomas Lowe, 1844

Thomas Lowe kept a series of journals of his time at Fort Vancouver, and they contain a great deal of information about the running of that Pacific Coast headquarters. In…

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Anderson at the First Fort Nisqually

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson May 7, 2023 Following A.C.Anderson around British Columbia, Fur Trade History
Anderson at the First Fort Nisqually

In early to mid- October of 1841, clerk Alexander Caulfield Anderson finally arrived at the first Fort Nisqually, built in spring, 1833, on Puget Sound. For the fort’s early history,…

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