Nancy Marguerite Anderson

Hello, everyone. My name is Nancy Marguerite Anderson, and I am the author of The Pathfinder: A.C. Anderson's Journeys in the West. He was the HBC furtrader who, in the mid-1840's, threaded his way through mountain passes and down rapid-filled rivers in search of a horse-friendly trail through the rugged country that separated the Kamloops fort from Fort Langley, on the lower Fraser River.

Alexander Caulfield Anderson was my great-grandfather, and I wanted to know who he was. As I wrote my book, I learned things that threatened to destroy the historic and heroic fur trade figure that lived inside my head. There were many occasions when I flinched, but I think those "flinches" transformed Anderson into a man, with quirks and flaws and character and kindness and a poetic courtesy -- an extraordinary human being.

I hope that you too will take pleasure in plumbing the depths of this man's story, which is also British Columbia's history.