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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Henry James Warre

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson September 11, 2021 "Headquarters", "York Factory Express"

Henry James Warre was a British Army Captain who came to the Pacific Slopes, with his companion Lieutenant Mervin Vavasour, on a secret spying mission for the British Government. The…

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Paul Kane on the Columbia River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 3, 2021 "York Factory Express", Hudson's Bay Company
Paul Kane on the Columbia River

In this post on Paul Kane’s journey to the Pacific Slopes (otherwise known as the west side of the Rocky Mountains), we are leaving Boat Encampment and making our way…

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James Sinclair’s letters

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 25, 2017 Hudson's Bay Company, Metis in the West
James Sinclair’s letters

I am looking at my collection of information, and realizing that much of it will never make it into any book I am writing or can write in the near…

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James Birnie, Alexander Caulfield Anderson, and Reverend Herbert Beaver

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 4, 2017 A Literary A. C. Anderson, James and Charlot Birnie of Cathlamet
James Birnie, Alexander Caulfield Anderson, and Reverend Herbert Beaver

In this section of the James and Charlot Birnie thread, we left Birnie’s story as he and his family were sailing south from his posting at Fort Simpson in 1836.…

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The Bully of Fort Nisqually

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 1, 2017 "The HBC Brigades", Brigade Trails
The Bully of Fort Nisqually

There is another brigade trail which I keep forgetting to mention: of course, until recently I did not know a lot about it. In fact I was quite surprised, only…

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