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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Spring 1845 at Fort Vancouver

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 28, 2023 "Headquarters", Hudson's Bay Company
Spring 1845 at Fort Vancouver

Thomas Lowe’s journal is the only source of information that I have at the moment, on what was happening at Fort Vancouver in Spring and early Summer of 1845. He…

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John Tod and me

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 1, 2022 London Ship
John Tod and me

No, I am not running off with John Tod of Kamloops: I am just telling you that there will be no blogpost this day, partly because I am so exhausted…

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Sioux Island Rapid

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 17, 2019 "York Factory Express", Hudson's Bay Company
Sioux Island Rapid

My book, The HBC Brigades: Culture, Conflict, and Perilous Journeys of the Fur Trade, was published by Ronsdale Press in July 2024. You may order my books, The HBC Brigades,…

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Bridge River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 26, 2017 "The Brigades", Brigade Trails
Bridge River

I find that, entirely by accident, two threads (stories) I am telling merge at the same place: at what the HBC men called Bridge River! But, as you can see…

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