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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Lillooet Lake to Fort Langley

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 6, 2018 "The Brigades", A Literary A. C. Anderson
Lillooet Lake to Fort Langley

We begin again with Alexander Caulfield Anderson’s journal of his exploration/expedition from Kamloops to Fort Langley, by what later became the Harrison-Lillooet Trail. The year is 1846, and his party…

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Anderson Lake to Lillooet Lake

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson September 8, 2018 "The Brigades", A Literary A. C. Anderson
Anderson Lake to Lillooet Lake

In this post we continue with the story of Alexander Caulfield Anderson’s expedition from the Kamloops post to Fort Langley in 1846. This is the first of the four “explorations”…

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Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Seton

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 10, 2014 "The Brigades", Anderson-Seton Family
Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Seton

Alexander Seton, after whom British Columbia’s Seton Lake was named, was born in 1814 at Tottenham, Middlesex. He was the eldest surviving son of Alexander Caulfield Anderson’s uncle, Alexander Anderson…

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Potlatch

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 3, 2014 "The Brigades", Natives in the Fur Trade
Potlatch

As Alexander Caulfield Anderson made his way along the north shores of the lakes later named Seton and Anderson Lakes, he wrote of the Natives’ welcoming ceremonies. The day before…

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Anderson’s 1846 exploration of the Lillooet River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 20, 2014 "The Brigades", Explorations
Anderson’s 1846 exploration of the Lillooet River

In 1846, Alexander Caulfield Anderson set out on an expedition that took him from Kamloops to Fort Langley, in search of a new brigade trail to the Coast. He and…

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