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!

Measles and Dysentery

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 1, 2020 "Journeys", "The Brigades", "York Factory Express"

I wrote about the 1847-1848 measles epidemic in my first book, The Pathfinder, in which I said: Measles began to sicken a few Dakelh around the fort [Fort Alexandria, Fraser…

Measles in the Columbia district, summer to fall 1847

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson January 16, 2016 "The Brigades", "York Factory Express"

In my first book, The Pathfinder, I wrote a little of the measles epidemic in the Columbia district, that finally reached Fort Alexandria [in central British Columbia] in January 1848.…