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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The Similkameen Valley section of the Brigade Trail

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 9, 2018 "The Brigades", Brigade Trails

In 1849, Royal Engineer Lieutenant Henry Spencer Palmer rode over the brigade trail to Fort Colvile at the side of Angus McDonald, who was then in charge of that Columbia…

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Collin’s Gulch

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 28, 2017 "The Brigades", Brigade Trails
Collin’s Gulch

In 1849, Deputy-Governor Eden Colvile traveled into the New Caledonia by the Peace River route. As he said in his letter to Sir J. H. Pelly, written from Fort Victoria…

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The Louchameen [Zouchameen] Road

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 22, 2017 "The Brigades", Brigade Trails
The Louchameen [Zouchameen] Road

In late 1858, Lieutenant Henry Spencer Palmer of the Royal Engineers arrived at Fort Victoria with the second batch of soldiers. By late summer of 1859, he was assigned to…

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I Found the Garden of Eden

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 14, 2015 Brigade Trails, HBC Transportation Systems
I Found the Garden of Eden

  Quite a long time ago, a friend named Sharon, who is an expert in maps both in the Archives and in various other repositories, took me into Lands and…

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Blackeye Folklore

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 25, 2015 Explorations, Natives in the Fur Trade
Blackeye Folklore

At the turn of the century, a small group of Athapascan warriors from the Chilcotins crossed the Fraser River and made their way south, toward Kamloops Lake. They knew they…

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