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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Captain Wilkes at Fort Nisqually

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 21, 2023 A Literary A. C. Anderson, Hudson's Bay Company
Captain Wilkes at Fort Nisqually

So Captain Charles Wilkes, of the United States Exploring Expedition, has arrived at Fort Nisqually, on Puget Sound. The year is 1841, and clerk Alexander Caulfield Anderson is in charge…

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Vancouver’s Island fort

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson December 30, 2021 "Headquarters", Fort Victoria stories
Vancouver’s Island fort

This post is about the Vancouver’s Island fort that will soon be built and, eventually, named Fort Victoria. This series of posts began at https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/locating-fort-victoria/ and it continues on from…

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Fort Victoria Murderers 2

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson May 22, 2021 "Headquarters", Deaths and Murders, Fort Victoria stories
Fort Victoria Murderers 2

 I ended the first section of this blogpost with the information that when Governor George Simpson arrived in the anchorage at Fort Stikine, he experienced a bad feeling. Both the…

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Fort Victoria Murderers

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson May 15, 2021 "Headquarters", Deaths and Murders, Fort Victoria stories
Fort Victoria Murderers

I wonder how many people today know that Fort Victoria was built, in part, by a group of five murderers from Fort Stikine? Let me tell you the story. There…

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Thomas Lowe

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 22, 2019 Fort Victoria stories, Hudson's Bay Company
Thomas Lowe

I have a few favourite characters among the enormous cluster of persons who lived West of the Rockies Mountains in the 1840s. Thomas Lowe is one of them. He was…

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