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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Cape Disappointment

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson December 23, 2024 "Headquarters", Headquarters
Cape Disappointment

I am exploring what happened when Henry James Warre came to the Columbia district in August 1845, travelling in with Peter Skene Ogden. There were some very interesting conversations going…

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HMS America

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 27, 2024 "Headquarters", Fort Victoria stories

The story of the British frigate HMS America is an especially interesting story, as it involves the history of both Forts Victoria and Vancouver. There are some very interesting characters…

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Fort Victoria’s Missing Years

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson February 25, 2023 "Headquarters", Fort Victoria stories
Fort Victoria’s Missing Years

  There are a few missing years in Fort Victoria’s early history: mainly between Summer 1844, when the Fort Victoria well was discovered, and 1846, when the Fort Victoria journals…

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Columbia Express

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 13, 2021 "York Factory Express", Hudson's Bay Company
Columbia Express

As we know, if you have purchased and read my book, The York Factory Express, the proper name for the incoming Express was the Columbia Express — although some people…

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Henry James Warre

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson September 11, 2021 "Headquarters", "York Factory Express"

Henry James Warre was a British Army Captain who came to the Pacific Slopes, with his companion Lieutenant Mervin Vavasour, on a secret spying mission for the British Government. The…

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