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!

NANCY MARGUERITE ANDERSON
  • Home
  • THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS
    • “York Factory Express”
  • “The Brigades”
    • Brigade Trails
  • “Journeys”
    • London Ship
  • Contact Nancy
  • Blog
    • Alexander Caulfield Anderson
      • Anderson-Seton Family
      • A.C. Anderson’s Writing
    • Fur Trade History
      • Deaths and Murders
    • HBC Transportation Systems
    • Natives in the Fur Trade
      • Native plants & foods
    • James and Charlot Birnie of Cathlamet

Henry James Warre

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson January 7, 2023 "Headquarters", "York Factory Express"
Henry James Warre

Captain Henry James Warre (1819-1898) was a British officer who, with a Royal Engineer Lieutenant named Mervin Vavasour, visited Forts Vancouver and Victoria in 1845 and 1846. As we know…

Read more

James Sinclair’s letters

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 25, 2017 Hudson's Bay Company, Metis in the West
James Sinclair’s letters

I am looking at my collection of information, and realizing that much of it will never make it into any book I am writing or can write in the near…

Read more

Dugald Mactavish

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson January 2, 2016 "The Brigades", Hudson's Bay Company
Dugald Mactavish

Who was Dugald Mactavish, who took over Fort Vancouver after Peter Skene Ogden’s death in 1854? Bruce McIntyre Watson, in his book “Lives Lived,” tells us he was born in…

Read more

Peu-Peu-Mox-Mox

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson December 12, 2015 Deaths and Murders, Natives in the Fur Trade
Peu-Peu-Mox-Mox

I have always been interested in the story of the Walla Walla Chief named Peu-Peu-Mox-Mox — a Native who I think was a very honorable man. I run across him…

Read more

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 200 other subscribers

Blog Categories

  • "Headquarters"
  • "Journeys"
  • "The Brigades"
  • "The Pathfinder: A.C. Anderson's Journeys in the West."
  • "Two Canoes"
  • "York Factory Express"
  • A Literary A. C. Anderson
  • A.C. Anderson’s Writing
  • Alexander Caulfield Anderson
  • Anderson-Seton Family
  • Brigade Trail Journals
  • Brigade Trails
  • Deaths and Murders
  • Explorations
  • Following A.C.Anderson around British Columbia
  • Fort Victoria stories
  • Fur Trade History
  • HBC Transportation Systems
  • Headquarters
  • Hudson's Bay Company
  • James and Charlot Birnie of Cathlamet
  • London Ship
  • Metis in the West
  • Native plants & foods
  • Natives in the Fur Trade
  • North West Company
  • Sasquatch Stories
  • Stuwix Stories
  • The OId Brigade Trail
  • Writing
  • York Factory Express

Recent Posts

  • Women in the Boats 2 December 2, 2023
  • Women in the Boats November 25, 2023
  • Anderson and the River of Rapids November 18, 2023
  • Thomas Lowe, Summer 1845 November 11, 2023
  • Fort St. James November 4, 2023
Copyright © 2023 NANCY MARGUERITE ANDERSON | Theme by: Theme Horse | Powered by: WordPress