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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Fort Victoria Well

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 19, 2022 "Headquarters", Fort Victoria stories
Fort Victoria Well

Fort Victoria had a number of places from which they could get the water they needed for the new post. However, the first summer they were there was a summer…

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Thomas Lowe at Fort Vancouver

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 25, 2022 "Headquarters", Fur Trade History
Thomas Lowe at Fort Vancouver

On June 15, 1843, Thomas Lowe arrived at Fort Vancouver, about ninety miles upriver from the mouth of the Columbia, after having served both at the northwest coast post of…

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The building of Fort Victoria

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson May 7, 2022 "Headquarters", Fort Victoria stories
The building of Fort Victoria

In summer 1843, Fort Victoria was built on Camosun Harbour or Inlet, on the southern end of Vancouver’s Island. Although it was at first sometimes called Fort Albert, that name…

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Jean Baptiste Bolduc at Fort Albert

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson March 12, 2022 "Headquarters", Hudson's Bay Company
Jean Baptiste Bolduc at Fort Albert

In 1843, the missionary Jean Baptiste Zacharie Bolduc arrived at the new location of Fort Albert with Chief Factor James Douglas. His story gives us an interesting look at the…

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Locating Fort Albert

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson February 12, 2022 "Headquarters", Fort Victoria stories
Locating Fort Albert

In a letter written June 24 1842, to the Governor and Committee of the Hudson’s Bay Company in London, John McLoughlin argued that “In a private note dated Taco 24th…

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