NANCY MARGUERITE ANDERSON

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Thomas Lowe, Summer 1845

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 11, 2023 "Headquarters", Hudson's Bay Company No Comments
Thomas Lowe, Summer 1845

  And so we come to July, 1845, when clerk Thomas Lowe continued to write in his journal on what happened at the Pacific Coast headquarters of Fort Vancouver, in…

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McLoughlin’s letters 1844-45

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 27, 2023 "Headquarters", Headquarters
McLoughlin’s letters 1844-45

In writing my blogpost of last week (that is, Thomas Lowe’s journal), I have become aware that I am missing John McLoughlin’s letters for the same period, and it is…

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Thomas Lowe, 1845

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 20, 2023 "Headquarters", Hudson's Bay Company
Thomas Lowe, 1845

For Thomas Lowe, it is 1845 — and of course it is time for me to write a Thomas Lowe post. Yet, I discover that most of the information I…

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The York Factory River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson March 28, 2020 "York Factory Express", Hudson's Bay Company

The York Factory River? As far as I can tell, it is the lower Hayes River where it flows past York Factory into Hudson Bay. It’s a good name for…

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James Lowe’s 1853 tour

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson January 6, 2018 Fort Victoria stories, Fur Trade History
James Lowe’s 1853 tour

James Lowe was the younger brother of Thomas Lowe, who in 1849 retired from the Hudson’s Bay Company at Fort Vancouver, and established himself as a store-keeper in Oregon Territory…

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