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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Jean-Baptiste Leolo

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson May 25, 2024 "The Brigades", Natives in the Fur Trade

Jean-Baptiste Leolo (also known as Jean-Baptiste Lolo) was an important man in British Columbia, and more specifically, Kamloops’s history — and he still is, right up to the modern-day. He…

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Peter Warren Dease in New Caledonia

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson May 19, 2024 "Journeys", "The Brigades"

Peter Warren Dease was assigned the charge of the New Caledonia district in 1831, taking over the charge of the district from Chief Factor William Connolly, who had been at…

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Researching Fort St James

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson May 5, 2024 "The Brigades", Fur Trade History
Researching Fort St James

Researching Fort St James is an enormous proposition, and if you had to do it all by yourself, it would impossible to do. Fortunately, we have help. This is a…

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Fort Colvile Brigades

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson March 23, 2024 "The Brigades", Brigade Trail Journals
Fort Colvile Brigades

In this blogpost we continue the stories of the incoming 1828 Fort Colvile Brigades, as they make their way up the Columbia River from Fort Vancouver. The man who kept…

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George Barnston

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson May 18, 2019 "York Factory Express", Hudson's Bay Company
George Barnston

My tweets (on Twitter, of course) a little while ago were this: We commenced our Journey across the Portage at 10 a.m., our Party consisting of Messrs James McMillan, James…

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