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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The Road Crew

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson April 29, 2017 "The HBC Brigades", Brigade Trails
The Road Crew

I sometimes work with a researcher who does not listen, and it becomes very difficult to have to explain, once again, that the information he/she is presenting me is not…

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The 1843 Brigade Trail, Loon Lake to Green Lake

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson March 27, 2016 "The HBC Brigades", Brigade Trails
The 1843 Brigade Trail, Loon Lake to Green Lake

From Loon Lake, in what is now the province of British Columbia, the men of the incoming New Caledonia brigade rode northwest, crossing the range of hills that lay between…

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Grasses

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 27, 2015 Brigade Trails, Fur Trade History

Grasses: An unlikely subject, perhaps, but one that is becoming of interest to some historians West of the Rocky Mountains. But while I researched my upcoming brigades book, I discovered…

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Club Law

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 18, 2015 Fur Trade History
Club Law

In 1841, while he was in charge of Fort Nisqually, Alexander Caulfield Anderson got into a little trouble with Chief Factor John McLoughlin. Anderson had quarreled with a French-Canadian employee,…

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The Nicola Valley

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson December 13, 2014 "The HBC Brigades", Brigade Trails
The Nicola Valley

You will see, above, a portion of Alexander Caulfield Anderson’s 1867 Map of British Columbia. At the top is Kamloops Lake, with the Kamloops post perched at its east end.…

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