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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Dairy Fields

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson September 1, 2024 "The HBC Brigades", Brigade Trails
Dairy Fields

In 2019, a female resident of Williams Lake, named Frances, emailed me to ask whether or not I knew anything of Dairy Fields. This is what she said: Do you…

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Paul Fraser

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson May 21, 2016 "The HBC 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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Chief William, of William’s Lake

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson March 16, 2014 Hudson's Bay Company, Natives in the Fur Trade
Chief William, of William’s Lake

In 1879, Chief William, of the ‘Williams Lake Indians,’ wrote a letter to the editor of the British Daily Colonist newspaper in Victoria, B.C., urging readers to “settle the land…

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