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!

NANCY MARGUERITE ANDERSON
  • Home
  • THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS
    • “York Factory Express”
  • “The Brigades”
    • Brigade Trails
  • “Journeys”
    • London Ship
  • Contact Nancy
  • Blog
    • Alexander Caulfield Anderson
      • Anderson-Seton Family
      • A.C. Anderson’s Writing
    • Fur Trade History
      • Deaths and Murders
    • HBC Transportation Systems
    • Natives in the Fur Trade
      • Native plants & foods
    • James and Charlot Birnie of Cathlamet

Fort McLoughlin’s End

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 9, 2021 Following A.C.Anderson around British Columbia, Hudson's Bay Company

The end of Fort McLoughlin’s reign on the northwest Coast has an interesting twist to it, which includes a sad story about a man I have written about in two…

Read more

Battle at Fort McLoughlin

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 26, 2021 Following A.C.Anderson around British Columbia, Hudson's Bay Company
Battle at Fort McLoughlin

We ended the last post in this series with the realization that instantly, and without warning, the HBC’s northwest coast post of Fort McLoughlin, on Milbank Sound, was under attack…

Read more

Lac La Hache (Axe Lake)

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson March 24, 2018 "The Brigades", Brigade Trails
Lac La Hache (Axe Lake)

I would love to know how Lac la Hache got its name, but I only know that it is named for an axe which apparently was lost in its waters,…

Read more

Charles John Griffin

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson December 5, 2015 Fort Victoria stories, Hudson's Bay Company
Charles John Griffin

I first ran into Charles John Griffin in the York Factory Express journals of 1849, when he came into the country West of the Rocky Mountains with John Charles’s incoming…

Read more

I Found the Garden of Eden

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 14, 2015 Brigade Trails, HBC Transportation Systems
I Found the Garden of Eden

  Quite a long time ago, a friend named Sharon, who is an expert in maps both in the Archives and in various other repositories, took me into Lands and…

Read more

  • « Previous

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 187 other subscribers

Blog Categories

  • "Headquarters"
  • "Journeys"
  • "The Brigades"
  • "The Pathfinder: A.C. Anderson's Journeys in the West."
  • "Two Canoes"
  • "York Factory Express"
  • A Literary A. C. Anderson
  • A.C. Anderson’s Writing
  • Alexander Caulfield Anderson
  • Anderson-Seton Family
  • Brigade Trail Journals
  • Brigade Trails
  • Deaths and Murders
  • Explorations
  • Following A.C.Anderson around British Columbia
  • Fort Victoria stories
  • Fur Trade History
  • HBC Transportation Systems
  • Headquarters
  • Hudson's Bay Company
  • James and Charlot Birnie of Cathlamet
  • London Ship
  • Metis in the West
  • Native plants & foods
  • Natives in the Fur Trade
  • North West Company
  • Sasquatch Stories
  • Stuwix Stories
  • The OId Brigade Trail
  • Writing
  • York Factory Express

Recent Posts

  • Thomas Lowe’s Summer 1844 August 13, 2022
  • Old Fort Simpson August 6, 2022
  • Anderson on Montreal Island July 30, 2022
  • Ottawa River July 23, 2022
  • Paul Kane and the Brigades July 16, 2022
Copyright © 2022 NANCY MARGUERITE ANDERSON | Theme by: Theme Horse | Powered by: WordPress