NANCY MARGUERITE ANDERSON

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George Stewart Simpson, son of Governor George Simpson

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson January 23, 2016 "The HBC Brigades", Metis in the West
George Stewart Simpson, son of Governor George Simpson

When my first book was published in November 2011, I was also in the throes of writing a talk to be given in front of the Victoria Historical Society. In…

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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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Governor Blanshard

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 15, 2015 Fort Victoria stories, Fur Trade History

Young James Anderson, A.C. Anderson’s son, was about ten years old when he attended the school inside the walls of Fort Victoria [Victoria, B.C.]. In his memoirs, he wrote about…

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John Work’s Journey to the Columbia District, 1823

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 25, 2015 "Two Canoes", "York Factory Express"
John Work’s Journey to the Columbia District, 1823

Three years before the York Factory Express existed, John Work travelled over much of their route, on his way from York Factory to Spokane House, on the Spokane River. He…

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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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