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More tiny stories

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson May 17, 2025 "Headquarters", Fort Victoria stories No Comments
More tiny stories

As I cobble together the 1857 chapter of “Headquarters,” I am finding some tiny stories — I might solve them before this blogpost is published, but I suggest that some…

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Thomas Lowe, Fall 1845

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson January 4, 2025 "Headquarters", Headquarters
Thomas Lowe, Fall 1845

In Fall, 1845, Thomas Lowe continued to record the many new happenings and visitors to Fort Vancouver. I finished the last post with this this paragraph: “Two other British officers are…

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Thomas Lowe, 1845

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 20, 2023 "Headquarters", Hudson's Bay Company
Thomas Lowe, 1845

For Thomas Lowe, it is 1845 — and of course it is time for me to write a Thomas Lowe post. Yet, I discover that most of the information I…

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Thomas Lowe: the London Ship

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson January 21, 2023 "Headquarters", Headquarters
Thomas Lowe: the London Ship

In our last Thomas Lowe blogpost, we ran with his account of the 1844 Fort Vancouver fire. This was not the only time that a fire threatened Fort Vancouver: there…

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Shipping at Fort Vancouver

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 26, 2022 "Headquarters", London Ship
Shipping at Fort Vancouver

It is time to write a little more about Thomas Lowe’s experiences at Fort Vancouver, and so we will now do it. We have just come through the Fort Vancouver…

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