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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New Caledonia Brigades Travel up the North River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 24, 2017 Brigade Trail Journals, The OId Brigade Trail
New Caledonia Brigades Travel up the North River

Today we will continue with our brigade journey north of Kamloops, up the North Thompson River toward the modern day town of Little Fort. Anderson rode over this trail when…

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1843 Brigade Trail: Green Lake to Horse Lake

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson March 6, 2017 "The Brigades", Brigade Trails
1843 Brigade Trail: Green Lake to Horse Lake

This is the most difficult part of the trail to write about, as there are two routes in this part of the country, neither of them well known. One is…

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Blackeye, and Blackeye’s Son: Who are They?

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 11, 2014 Natives in the Fur Trade, Stuwix Stories
Blackeye, and Blackeye’s Son: Who are They?

In Alexander Caulfield Anderson’s 1846 journal, we come across the Similkameen Native man named Blackeye. This is what Anderson wrote of him [it has been edited for length]: Saty 6th…

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