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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Fort Alexandria Flood

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 19, 2024 "The HBC Brigades", Fur Trade History

Today I am going to talk about the Fort Alexandria Flood. I just spent a week up in Williams Lake, with Ordell Steen showing my friend and me around Dairy…

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1858 Brigade Trails

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 13, 2020 "The HBC Brigades", Hudson's Bay Company
1858 Brigade Trails

  It is interesting to see how the packers who followed the HBC trails into the upper district travelled up and down what they called “the Old Brigade Trail” to…

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