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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Anderson at Fort Nisqually

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson February 19, 2023 "Headquarters", A Literary A. C. Anderson
Anderson at Fort Nisqually

In 1840 and 1841, Alexander Caulfield Anderson was put in temporary charge of the Cowlitz Farm, and later posted to Fort Nisqually, on Puget Sound. The location of the future…

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Thomas Lowe: the London Ship

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson January 21, 2023 "Headquarters", Headquarters
Thomas Lowe: the London Ship

In our last Thomas Lowe blogpost, we ran with his account of the 1844 Fort Vancouver fire. This was not the only time that a fire threatened Fort Vancouver: there…

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Vancouver’s Island fort

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson December 30, 2021 "Headquarters", Fort Victoria stories
Vancouver’s Island fort

This post is about the Vancouver’s Island fort that will soon be built and, eventually, named Fort Victoria. This series of posts began at https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/locating-fort-victoria/ and it continues on from…

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Fort Durham

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 27, 2021 "Headquarters", Fort Victoria stories
Fort Durham

I am putting this Fort Durham series in front of a few histories that came earlier (ie. Fort Simpson, and the Stikine River story), because Thomas Lowe is approaching the…

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On the way to Sitka

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson September 25, 2021 "Headquarters", Hudson's Bay Company
On the way to Sitka

This post is about Thomas Lowe’s journey north to Sitka, the Russian headquarters on the Northwest Coast, in what is now the Alaska Panhandle.  I do have to correct something…

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