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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Little Stories

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson April 26, 2025 "Headquarters", Fort Victoria stories 2 Comments
Little Stories

I keep running across little stories that I had questions about, but no answers. One of the little stories was the theft of money at the Sandwich Islands in 1850.…

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HMS Modeste and USS Shark

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson December 1, 2024 "Headquarters", Headquarters
HMS Modeste and USS Shark

The HMS Modeste and the USS Shark both spent time in the Columbia River, anchored off the HBC headquarters of Fort Vancouver. In reading articles about these two historic warships,…

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Warre’s York Factory Express Journal

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 16, 2024 "York Factory Express", York Factory Express
Warre’s York Factory Express Journal

The two British spies, Henry James Warre and Mervin Vavasour, left the Columbia district in the outgoing York Factory Express of March, 1846. We have Henry Warre’s York Factory Express…

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Fort Victoria Ships

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson March 30, 2024 "Headquarters", Fort Victoria stories
Fort Victoria Ships

The years between 1844, when Charles Ross died, and 1846, when the Fort Victoria journals begin, are a bit of a wasteland so far as information re: the workings of…

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McLoughlin’s letters 1844-45

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 27, 2023 "Headquarters", Headquarters
McLoughlin’s letters 1844-45

In writing my blogpost of last week (that is, Thomas Lowe’s journal), I have become aware that I am missing John McLoughlin’s letters for the same period, and it is…

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