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!

The New Caledonia brigades head up the Nechako River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson May 26, 2018 Brigade Trail Journals, The OId Brigade Trail

So, in 1826 Chief Factor William Connolly and his brigades paddled by the temporarily closed Fort George [Prince George], heading upriver to Fort James. In 1831, Peter Warren Dease stopped…

Salmon Runs, 1843 to 1858

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson December 20, 2015 Fur Trade History, Natives in the Fur Trade

As a BC-ite and fur trade historian of sorts, I have been brought up on the notion that the salmon runs were regular events, and that only once in every…