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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Fort Durham’s Closure

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson April 30, 2022 "Headquarters", Fur Trade History
Fort Durham’s Closure

Clerk Thomas Lowe finally arrived at Fort Durham (sometimes called Fort Taku) in April 1842, and his letters now tell the story of what happened at this turbulent northwest coast…

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Fort Taku

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 27, 2020 Fort Victoria stories, Hudson's Bay Company
Fort Taku

  Fort Durham, also called Fort Taku, was built by the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1840, on what is called Taku Harbour, in Juneau, Alaska. It only stood for three…

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Thomas Lowe

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 22, 2019 Fort Victoria stories, Hudson's Bay Company
Thomas Lowe

I have a few favourite characters among the enormous cluster of persons who lived West of the Rockies Mountains in the 1840s. Thomas Lowe is one of them. He was…

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Liard River 2

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson December 15, 2018 Brigade Trails, Explorations
Liard River 2

I promised my Twitter followers I was going to keep them wet and cold over Christmas, and I can’t think of a better way to do that than to continue…

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