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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Cape Disappointment

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson December 23, 2024 "Headquarters", Headquarters
Cape Disappointment

I am exploring what happened when Henry James Warre came to the Columbia district in August 1845, travelling in with Peter Skene Ogden. There were some very interesting conversations going…

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Warre’s York Factory Express Journal

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 16, 2024 "York Factory Express", York Factory Express
Warre’s York Factory Express Journal

The two British spies, Henry James Warre and Mervin Vavasour, left the Columbia district in the outgoing York Factory Express of March, 1846. We have Henry Warre’s York Factory Express…

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Otter skins

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 9, 2024 "Headquarters", "York Factory Express"
Otter skins

This story has on odd beginning: you would not think that a story about Otter Skins would have anything to do with the construction of a fur trade fort, would…

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The Missionaries

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 2, 2024 "Headquarters", "The Brigades"
The Missionaries

The HBC men had been settled at Fort Vancouver, on the banks of the Columbia River, for decades before the first of the Missionaries came west to establish permanent settlements…

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Connolly’s Brigades and McLeod’s Express

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 24, 2024 "The Brigades", "York Factory Express"
Connolly’s Brigades and McLeod’s Express

In 1826, the expresses and brigades had different, but similar experiences as they passed through the range of mountains that separated the Pacific Coast from the interior of what is…

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