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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Finan McDonald’s letters

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 6, 2019 Fur Trade History, North West Company
Finan McDonald’s letters

I am browsing through some of my old records, and I stumbled on some research which will be of interest to many besides me. This research was done many years…

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Two Canoes: John Work arrives at his destination

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson May 5, 2018 "Two Canoes", "York Factory Express"
Two Canoes: John Work arrives at his destination

John Work is on his way west to Spokane House, his destination. In our last John Work post, we left his boats at the bottom end of the Upper Arrow…

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Reverend Staines

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson February 17, 2018 Fort Victoria stories, Fur Trade History
Reverend Staines

In 1850, James Robert Anderson, and his older sister, Eliza Charlotte, traveled over the brigade trail from Fort Colvile with their father, Alexander Caulfield Anderson, to attend the school in…

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To Fort Nez Perces (Walla Walla)

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson December 3, 2016 Brigade Trail Journals, The OId Brigade Trail
To Fort Nez Perces (Walla Walla)

I see I have forgotten to include the two journals that cover the short section of the Columbia River east of the Cascades, to Fort Nez Perces. It is time…

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Charlot Birnie

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 5, 2016 James and Charlot Birnie of Cathlamet
Charlot Birnie

It will shock the descendants of James and Charlot Birnie to know this: that on James Birnie’s return to the Columbia district in 1826 with the incoming York Factory Express,…

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