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 Fraser Canyon War

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 7, 2018 "The Brigades", Brigade Trails
The Fraser Canyon War

I have to re-write the last two chapters of my brigades book because I fell into a story I had not researched nor discovered until now. Why had I not…

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Fort Shepherd Stories

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 16, 2018 Hudson's Bay Company, Metis in the West
Fort Shepherd Stories

Well, now that I have entered the Similkameen and Kettle River areas again, it is time to relax a little and tell some stories that are just-plain-fun! So, lets look…

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Weather on the Lower Fraser River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson December 30, 2017 "The Brigades", Fur Trade History
Weather on the Lower Fraser River

  I wrote this blogpost a few years ago, when there was extreme cold everywhere! The same seems to be happening again, particularly on the east side of the Rocky…

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The Road Crew

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson April 29, 2017 "The 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…

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Native Bridges in the Fraser Canyon

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson December 15, 2014 Explorations, Natives in the Fur Trade
Native Bridges in the Fraser Canyon

At Fort Alexandria, the first days of April 1847 came in pleasant and warm, though snow still lay on the ground. On April 23, Montrose McGillivray arrived at the fort…

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