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!

Augustus Peers’s journal

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 1, 2016 "Journeys", Hudson's Bay Company

Augustus Peers was the older brother of Henry Newsham Peers, of Forts Langley and Victoria. Henry was a man who made history west of the Rocky Mountains: he will be…

Alexander Caulfield Anderson at Lachine

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 17, 2015 A Literary A. C. Anderson, Fur Trade History

Alexander Caulfield Anderson was one of the most significant men of his time (the 1840’s) in the early history of what later became British Columbia, and so I thought some…