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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Fort McLoughlin’s End

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 9, 2021 Following A.C.Anderson around British Columbia, Hudson's Bay Company

The end of Fort McLoughlin’s reign on the northwest Coast has an interesting twist to it, which includes a sad story about a man I have written about in two…

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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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John Charles 2

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 12, 2021 "York Factory Express", Metis in the West
John Charles 2

This post is a continuation of John Charles’s story. I began this story some time ago, as you may remember, and it began with this paragraph: John Charles led out…

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James Anderson on the Back River 1

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 5, 2021 "Journeys", Explorations
James Anderson on the Back River 1

So James Anderson and James Green Stewart and their men have now reached the headwaters of the Great Fish River, and will begin their journey north to the Arctic Ocean.…

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Building Fort McLoughlin

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson April 17, 2021 Following A.C.Anderson around British Columbia, Hudson's Bay Company
Building Fort McLoughlin

And so the Hudson’s Bay Company men have arrived in McLoughlin Bay, in what the HBC men on the coast called Milbanke Sound, on the North West Coast. They have…

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