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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Natives in the Kamloops Post Journals

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 5, 2017 "The Brigades", Natives in the Fur Trade
Natives in the Kamloops Post Journals

For about five years, from August 1850 to June 1855, Paul Fraser kept the Fort Kamloops post journals. The records are not complete: nor did I copy them all out,…

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John McKenzie Simpson

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson September 4, 2016 "The Brigades", Metis in the West
John McKenzie Simpson

Some time ago I wrote about George Stewart Simpson, son of the HBC Governor,George Simpson, and Margaret Taylor [who is traveling with Governor Simpson in my “Two Canoes” stream]. As…

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Little Fort, on the North Thompson River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson March 28, 2015 Fur Trade History, Natives in the Fur Trade

It delights me to find people who are interested in the history of the little place they came from — and I have heard from someone who is from one…

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Michel Fallardeau

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 22, 2014 Deaths and Murders, Metis in the West
Michel Fallardeau

Michel Fallardeau is one of my favorite men in the history of the West side of the Rocky Mountains before 1858; and a man who suffered a mysterious death. It…

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