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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A Look-Back at James Birnie’s life

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 4, 2020 Fur Trade History, James and Charlot Birnie of Cathlamet
A Look-Back at James Birnie’s life

So, in 1846, James Birnie retired, a disappointed man, after 28 years of working in the fur trade of the North West Company and the Hudson’s Bay Company. How did…

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A Hudon Marriage and Baptism in old France

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson December 14, 2019 James and Charlot Birnie of Cathlamet, Metis in the West
A Hudon Marriage and Baptism in old France

I told you in a previous post that I acquired a manuscript from an archives in France, that tells us of the Hudon-dit-Beaulieu family in France and in Quebec. But…

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Joseph and Josephine Rondeau

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 25, 2018 Fur Trade History, Hudson's Bay Company
Joseph and Josephine Rondeau

I get asked a lot of questions, for the most part because people think I know everything about the Hudson’s Bay Company. I do not, although I have a lot…

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Two Canoes: John Work arrives at his destination

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson May 5, 2018 "Two Canoes", "York Factory Express"
Two Canoes: John Work arrives at his destination

John Work is on his way west to Spokane House, his destination. In our last John Work post, we left his boats at the bottom end of the Upper Arrow…

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Charlot Birnie

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 5, 2016 James and Charlot Birnie of Cathlamet
Charlot Birnie

It will shock the descendants of James and Charlot Birnie to know this: that on James Birnie’s return to the Columbia district in 1826 with the incoming York Factory Express,…

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