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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Michel Kaonassé

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 26, 2019 Hudson's Bay Company, York Factory Express
Michel Kaonassé

I fell into Michel Kaonassé’s story long before I knew how important it would be in my York Factory Express book. Kaonassé worked at Fort Alexandria under my great-grandfather Alexander…

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Devil’s Club

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson May 19, 2018 Native plants & foods, York Factory Express
Devil’s Club

You may wonder why I am beginning a post with this subject — wonder no longer. Devil’s Club is a poisonous plant that grows everywhere in the province of B.C.,…

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Two Canoes: The “Big Hill”

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson December 16, 2017 "Two Canoes", Fur Trade History
Two Canoes: The “Big Hill”

In his journal it appears that John Work, and his incoming party, has just passed the Council’s Punch Bowl when they “Encamped in the afternoon near what is called the…

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Two Canoes: To Athabasca Pass

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 14, 2017 "Two Canoes", HBC Transportation Systems
Two Canoes: To Athabasca Pass

In the eighteenth post in the Two Canoes series, at http://nancymargueriteanderson.com/two-canoes-eighteen/ John Work and Peter Skene Ogden traveled through Jasper Valley to the Grande Traverse on the Whirlpool River, where…

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Snowshoeing

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 12, 2016 Hudson's Bay Company, York Factory Express
Snowshoeing

The HBC’s “Rupertsland” was a land of winter, and for the HBC men snow-shoes were essential. At some point in their lives, every man who worked for the HBC (and…

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