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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Anderson at Fort Nisqually

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson February 19, 2023 "Headquarters", A Literary A. C. Anderson
Anderson at Fort Nisqually

In 1840 and 1841, Alexander Caulfield Anderson was put in temporary charge of the Cowlitz Farm, and later posted to Fort Nisqually, on Puget Sound. The location of the future…

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Locating Fort Albert

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson February 12, 2022 "Headquarters", Fort Victoria stories
Locating Fort Albert

In a letter written June 24 1842, to the Governor and Committee of the Hudson’s Bay Company in London, John McLoughlin argued that “In a private note dated Taco 24th…

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Thomas Lowe at the Sandwich Islands

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 19, 2021 Hudson's Bay Company, London Ship
Thomas Lowe at the Sandwich Islands

In this post of the series on Thomas Lowe’s journey in the London Ship, Vancouver, he will reach the Sandwich Islands [Hawaii]. Or at least I hope he will. Let’s…

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Thomas Lowe and the York Factory Express

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 2, 2019 "York Factory Express", Hudson's Bay Company
Thomas Lowe and the York Factory Express

Thomas Lowe worked for the Hudson’s Bay Company from 1842 to his retirement in 1849, and he kept journals of his experiences in the Columbia district the entire time he…

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Provisions for the Brigades

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson September 26, 2015 "The Brigades", Brigade Trails
Provisions for the Brigades

In one of his manuscripts Anderson wrote about the pigs that were at Fort Alexandria when he was there, and how happy he was to see the last of them!…

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