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 S.S.Beaver sails to the Columbia River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson February 17, 2024 Hudson's Bay Company, London Ship
The S.S.Beaver sails to the Columbia River

In 1836, the S.S. Beaver sails east from the Sandwich Islands to the mouth of the Columbia River and, eventually, Fort Vancouver, the HBC headquarters on the Pacific Slopes. Here…

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Beaver at the Equator

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson February 10, 2024 "Headquarters", London Ship

The Steamer Beaver, and its accompanying ship the Columbia, sailed over the Equator for the second time on this journey: this time from the south to the northern hemisphere. It…

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Beaver in the South Atlantic

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson January 20, 2024 "Headquarters", London Ship
Beaver in the South Atlantic

In this post, the Steamer Beaver, and the HBC ship Columbia, are travelling together on a course to the South Atlantic Ocean and beyond. As the transcribed copy of the…

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Log of the Steamer Beaver 2

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson January 6, 2024 "Headquarters", London Ship
Log of the Steamer Beaver 2

This is the continuation of the Log of the Steamer Beaver, a steamship that came from the London Docks on the Thames River to Fort Vancouver, under sail, in 1835…

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Spring 1845 at Fort Vancouver

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 28, 2023 "Headquarters", Hudson's Bay Company
Spring 1845 at Fort Vancouver

Thomas Lowe’s journal is the only source of information that I have at the moment, on what was happening at Fort Vancouver in Spring and early Summer of 1845. He…

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