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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Battle at Fort McLoughlin

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 26, 2021 Following A.C.Anderson around British Columbia, Hudson's Bay Company
Battle at Fort McLoughlin

We ended the last post in this series with the realization that instantly, and without warning, the HBC’s northwest coast post of Fort McLoughlin, on Milbank Sound, was under attack…

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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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Fort McLoughlin

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson March 20, 2021 Following A.C.Anderson around British Columbia, Hudson's Bay Company
Fort McLoughlin

Fort McLoughlin was a Hudson’s Bay Company post, built on what the HBC men called “Milbanke Sound,” on the Northwest Coast, in 1833. Alexander Caulfield Anderson had only just arrived…

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Fort Vancouver

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 8, 2016 "The Brigades", "York Factory Express"
Fort Vancouver

In my book, The Pathfinder, I included a caption that indicated the size of Fort Vancouver over the years, and how it changed in size. The caption appears on page…

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