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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Researching Fort St James

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson May 5, 2024 "The Brigades", Fur Trade History
Researching Fort St James

Researching Fort St James is an enormous proposition, and if you had to do it all by yourself, it would impossible to do. Fortunately, we have help. This is a…

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Two Canoes to Ile-a-la-Crosse

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson September 17, 2016 "Two Canoes", Fur Trade History
Two Canoes to Ile-a-la-Crosse

This is the sixth article in this series: two canoe journeys on the Upper Churchill River, on their way to Ile-a-la-Crosse and beyond. Both groups of canoes are on their…

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The 1843 Brigade Trail, Loon Lake to Green Lake

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson March 27, 2016 "The Brigades", Brigade Trails
The 1843 Brigade Trail, Loon Lake to Green Lake

From Loon Lake, in what is now the province of British Columbia, the men of the incoming New Caledonia brigade rode northwest, crossing the range of hills that lay between…

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The 1843 brigade trail, Copper Creek to Loon Lake

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 20, 2015 "The Brigades", Brigade Trails
The 1843 brigade trail, Copper Creek to Loon Lake

In November 1842, Alexander Caulfield Anderson rode north from Kamloops, over the newly explored trail that was to replace the old brigade trail over the North Thompson plateau. Apparently Anderson…

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Fort Alexandria to Drowned Horse Lake

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 29, 2014 Brigade Trail Journals, The OId Brigade Trail
Fort Alexandria to Drowned Horse Lake

In this post, part of a series beginning here: https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/brigade-one/ I am continuing to tell the story of two outgoing brigades on their journey from Fort St. James to Fort…

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