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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New Caledonia posts

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson March 1, 2025 "Headquarters", "Journeys", "The Brigades"
New Caledonia posts

There are quite a few historic posts in what the HBC called New Caledonia, and also on the northwest coast. In this post, I am going through these historic posts…

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Samuel Black

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson April 27, 2024 "The Brigades", Deaths and Murders
Samuel Black

Samuel Black was the oddest of all the HBC men. Black, born in 1780, was a young highlander of enormous size when he came to Canada and joined the fur…

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The S.S.Beaver sails to the Columbia River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson February 17, 2024 Hudson's Bay Company, London Ship
The S.S.Beaver sails to the Columbia River

In 1836, the S.S. Beaver sails east from the Sandwich Islands to the mouth of the Columbia River and, eventually, Fort Vancouver, the HBC headquarters on the Pacific Slopes. Here…

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Norway House fire

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 25, 2020 "York Factory Express", Hudson's Bay Company
Norway House fire

I am proofing my York Factory Express manuscript, which is an interesting process. It is a chance to catch errors, and I found one. This is what I said in…

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Fort Colvile farm

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson March 15, 2020 Hudson's Bay Company, James and Charlot Birnie of Cathlamet
Fort Colvile farm

J. Orin Oliphant wrote an excellent article on “Old Fort Colville [Colvile]”, and I am again dipping into it to discover what farm animals were to be found there over…

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