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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Lac La Hache (Axe Lake)

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson March 24, 2018 "The Brigades", Brigade Trails
Lac La Hache (Axe Lake)

I would love to know how Lac la Hache got its name, but I only know that it is named for an axe which apparently was lost in its waters,…

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Paul Fraser

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson May 21, 2016 "The Brigades", Deaths and Murders
Paul Fraser

Paul Fraser was a man who never got along with anyone, as far as I can tell. Well, that’s not exactly true. Donald Manson liked him, and regretted his loss…

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Little Fort, on the North Thompson River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson March 28, 2015 Fur Trade History, Natives in the Fur Trade

It delights me to find people who are interested in the history of the little place they came from — and I have heard from someone who is from one…

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Michel Fallardeau

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 22, 2014 Deaths and Murders, Metis in the West
Michel Fallardeau

Michel Fallardeau is one of my favorite men in the history of the West side of the Rocky Mountains before 1858; and a man who suffered a mysterious death. It…

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Anderson’s 1847 expedition from Kamloops to Fort Langley & return

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 10, 2013 "The Brigades", Hudson's Bay Company
Anderson’s 1847 expedition from Kamloops to Fort Langley & return

In 1847, Alexander Caulfield Anderson set out on his second set of expeditions between the fort at Kamloops, and Fort Langley on the lower Fraser River. He began his journal…

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