NANCY MARGUERITE ANDERSON

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Fort Pitt

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 18, 2020 Hudson's Bay Company, York Factory Express
Fort Pitt

  Fort Pitt was a provisioning post, constructed in 1829-31, 217 miles downriver from Edmonton House. Before this post was built, the men of the outgoing Saskatchewan Brigades (which included…

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Cumberland House

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 6, 2020 Hudson's Bay Company, York Factory Express
Cumberland House

There is little mention of the York Factory Express and Saskatchewan Brigades passing through Cumberland House in the post journals in the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives. Nevertheless, there is lots…

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Edmonton Post Journal

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson May 16, 2020 Hudson's Bay Company, York Factory Express
Edmonton Post Journal

As I was researching the York Factory Express, I read some journals from the posts they would have gone through on their way down the river. I didn’t get a…

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Aurora Borealis

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson April 25, 2020 Hudson's Bay Company, York Factory Express
Aurora Borealis

The Aurora Borealis was a familiar sight to all the Hudson’s Bay men, but no York Factory Express man, other than Aemilius Simpson, ever wrote about it. Where did he…

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Fort Colvile farm

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson March 15, 2020 Hudson's Bay Company, James and Charlot Birnie of Cathlamet
Fort Colvile farm

J. Orin Oliphant wrote an excellent article on “Old Fort Colville [Colvile]”, and I am again dipping into it to discover what farm animals were to be found there over…

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