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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Celebrating Christmas in a Fur Trade Fort

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson December 23, 2017 "The Brigades", Hudson's Bay Company
Celebrating Christmas in a Fur Trade Fort

You will presume from the above photo that the firing of guns was a part of the celebration at Christmas — in the fur trade, the firing of guns was…

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Chief William, of William’s Lake

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson March 16, 2014 Hudson's Bay Company, Natives in the Fur Trade
Chief William, of William’s Lake

In 1879, Chief William, of the ‘Williams Lake Indians,’ wrote a letter to the editor of the British Daily Colonist newspaper in Victoria, B.C., urging readers to “settle the land…

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York Factory Express: Ft. Vancouver to Fort Nez Perces

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson January 6, 2014 "York Factory Express", Hudson's Bay Company
York Factory Express: Ft. Vancouver to Fort Nez Perces

As always, the main party of the York Factory Express began its journey at Fort Vancouver, on the Columbia River, shortly after March 20th every year. It was a tradition…

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Montrose McGillivray

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 30, 2013 "York Factory Express", Metis in the West
Montrose McGillivray

There are many fabulous people who worked in the fur trade, and Montrose McGillivray was one of them. When I write my book on Deaths and Murders, McGillivray will feature…

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Reading the Fur Trade

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 25, 2013 Brigade Trails, Fur Trade History
Reading the Fur Trade

One of the people I talk to on Twitter asked me which books she should read to learn more about the History of the Fur Trade in Canada. Canada is…

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