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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Rough Notes

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson May 31, 2025 "Headquarters", Explorations 11 Comments
Rough Notes

  I found a file in the British Columbia Archives, labeled “Rough Notes of Journeys in the Northwest,” ca. 1850, Mss-3622. The Archives itself has little idea who wrote this…

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Descending the Columbia River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson May 1, 2021 "York Factory Express", Hudson's Bay Company
Descending the Columbia River

I thought that for this series on the Columbia River, I might be able to access and read Samuel Black’s journal of his descent of the river in 1825. He…

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Two Canoes: John Work arrives at his destination

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson May 5, 2018 "Two Canoes", "York Factory Express"
Two Canoes: John Work arrives at his destination

John Work is on his way west to Spokane House, his destination. In our last John Work post, we left his boats at the bottom end of the Upper Arrow…

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The Kettle Valley

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 10, 2017 "The Brigades", Brigade Trails
The Kettle Valley

In 1849 the Fort Colvile brigades under Alexander Caulfield Anderson came north to Kamloops, where they joined the New Caledonia brigades on their journey to Fort Hope. However, while they…

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