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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Connecting Stories

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 14, 2024 "Headquarters", "York Factory Express"

Sometimes, quite by accident, a writer is able to connect one story to another in ways that makes two little stories into another story that is much more important. Connecting…

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Thomas Lowe, 1844

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson May 28, 2023 "Headquarters", London Ship
Thomas Lowe, 1844

Thomas Lowe kept a series of journals of his time at Fort Vancouver, and they contain a great deal of information about the running of that Pacific Coast headquarters. In…

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Thomas Lowe: the London Ship

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson January 21, 2023 "Headquarters", Headquarters
Thomas Lowe: the London Ship

In our last Thomas Lowe blogpost, we ran with his account of the 1844 Fort Vancouver fire. This was not the only time that a fire threatened Fort Vancouver: there…

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Shipping at Fort Vancouver

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 26, 2022 "Headquarters", London Ship
Shipping at Fort Vancouver

It is time to write a little more about Thomas Lowe’s experiences at Fort Vancouver, and so we will now do it. We have just come through the Fort Vancouver…

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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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