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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Club Law

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 18, 2015 Fur Trade History
Club Law

In 1841, while he was in charge of Fort Nisqually, Alexander Caulfield Anderson got into a little trouble with Chief Factor John McLoughlin. Anderson had quarreled with a French-Canadian employee,…

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Alexander Caulfield Anderson at Fort Nisqually

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 6, 2014 Fur Trade History, Hudson's Bay Company
Alexander Caulfield Anderson at Fort Nisqually

This is a talk I gave in front of the Anderson Island Historical Society, in Puget Sound. Alexander Caulfield Anderson had history here — he spent almost two years in…

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The outgoing New Caledonia brigade

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 22, 2014 Brigade Trail Journals, The OId Brigade Trail
The outgoing New Caledonia brigade

Alexander Caulfield Anderson spent a number of years in the New Caledonia district, the portion of the Columbia district that included Fort Alexandria on the Fraser River (north of Williams…

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A short Chronology of the Fur Trade West of the Rockies

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 29, 2013 Brigade Trails, Fur Trade History
A short Chronology of the Fur Trade West of the Rockies

One of the things that most interested me as I wrote this book, was that the fur trade in the territory we now know as British Columbia had such a…

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