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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Impossible Journey

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson May 29, 2021 "The Brigades", "York Factory Express"
Impossible Journey

When I was doing research some time ago for another book (“The Brigades”), I ran across one man who made an impossible journey through New Caledonia, heading north to the…

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Donald Manson’s Retirement

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 17, 2017 "The Brigades", Hudson's Bay Company
Donald Manson’s Retirement

Donald Manson was born in 1800, in Scotland, and worked for the Hudson’s Bay Company until 1857, when he retired. This is what Bruce Watson says of him in his…

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Paul Fraser

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson May 21, 2016 "The Brigades", Deaths and Murders
Paul Fraser

Paul Fraser was a man who never got along with anyone, as far as I can tell. Well, that’s not exactly true. Donald Manson liked him, and regretted his loss…

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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…

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Club Law

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 18, 2015 Fur Trade History
Club 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,…

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