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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Paul Kane leaves Jasper’s House

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson February 27, 2021 "York Factory Express", Hudson's Bay Company
Paul Kane leaves Jasper’s House

Artist Paul Kane was not impressed with the little post of Jasper’s House, but, fortunately for him, the incoming York Factory Express did not remain at the post for long.…

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The New Caledonia Brigades travel north from Fort Alexandria

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson February 24, 2018 Brigade Trail Journals, The OId Brigade Trail
The New Caledonia Brigades travel north from Fort Alexandria

The New Caledonia brigades started their journey at Fort St. James, and so have to make their way north, from Fort Alexandria, to that place. They turn their horses loose…

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Two Canoes: Governor Simpson reaches the Fraser River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson February 10, 2018 "The Brigades", "Two Canoes"
Two Canoes: Governor Simpson reaches the Fraser River

Governor Simpson has arrived at Fort St. James, and the first complaint he and his men have is about the provisions — or lack of them. As Archibald McDonald wrote…

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Little Stories from Scraps of an old Manuscript

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson February 27, 2016 A Literary A. C. Anderson, Natives in the Fur Trade
Little Stories from Scraps of an old Manuscript

Hidden away in the B.C. Archives is a magical little document written by Alexander Caulfield Anderson, in which he writes stories of the things he learned from the Natives that…

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The Murderer

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 29, 2015 Deaths and Murders, Natives in the Fur Trade
The Murderer

In the memoirs of James Robert Anderson, son of Alexander Caulfield Anderson, there are the beginnings of many little stories, which I am sometimes able to develop into larger ones.…

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