Governor Blanshard
Young James Anderson, A.C. Anderson’s son, was about ten years old when he attended the school inside the walls of Fort Victoria [Victoria, B.C.]. In his memoirs, he wrote about…
Read moreClub Law
In 1841, while he was in charge of Fort Nisqually, Alexander Caulfield Anderson got into a little trouble with Chief Factor John McLoughlin. Anderson had quarreled with a French-Canadian employee,…
Read moreChief Trader Alexander Caulfield Anderson
In 1846, Fort Alexandria’s clerk-in-charge, Alexander Caulfield Anderson, received his long expected Commission as Chief Trader in the Honorable Hudson’s Bay Company’s service, 15 years after he first entered the…
Read moreCaptain James Scarborough’s Gold
This is a story especially for Washington State residents, because many of you have heard the story of Captain James Scarborough’s Gold. Alexander Caulfield Anderson played a part in this story…
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