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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Two Canoes to Kamloops

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 2, 2018 "Two Canoes", Fur Trade History
Two Canoes to Kamloops

In our twenty-seventh post in this series, I will bring Governor George Simpson and his party down the North Thompson River to the post at Kamloops — and beyond! So…

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New Caledonia brigade moves north from Round Lake

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson April 15, 2017 Brigade Trail Journals, The OId Brigade Trail

In this fifteenth leg of the New Caledonia Brigades’ journeys by the Old Brigade Trail to Fort Vancouver and return, I will bring the brigades north from Round Lake, which…

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The Brigade Trails, Kamloops to Okanogan House

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson May 16, 2015 Brigade Trail Journals, The OId Brigade Trail
The Brigade Trails, Kamloops to Okanogan House

  I am continuing the outgoing express journals on their way south from the Thompson River post at Kamloops, through the Okanagan to Okanogan House. You will notice the two…

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Fur trade genealogy

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 18, 2014 Anderson-Seton Family, James and Charlot Birnie of Cathlamet
Fur trade genealogy

Fur trade genealogy is a very interesting subject, and I have quite a bit of information for some of the people whose Google searches turn up on my website. However,…

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Tsilaxitsa, Okanagan chief

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson January 25, 2014 "The Brigades", A Literary A. C. Anderson
Tsilaxitsa, Okanagan chief

Alexander Caulfield Anderson left Kamloops for the last time (as a fur trader, at least) in 1849 when he led the Fort Colvile brigades out to Fort Langley. He would…

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