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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Two Canoes: John Work comes down the Columbia River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson March 31, 2018 "Two Canoes", Fur Trade History 10 Comments
Two Canoes: John Work comes down the Columbia River

So in the last John Work journal, he and Peter Skene Ogden had reached Boat Encampment, having come down the Big Hill from Athabasca Pass. The year is 1823 —…

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An addition to the Cannibalism post

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson March 17, 2018 Deaths and Murders, Fur Trade History
An addition to the Cannibalism post

This will be a shorter-than-my-normal post, and it is part of the Cannibalism post of a few weeks ago. But this story is interesting: it is Paul Kane’s story of…

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Snowshoeing

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 12, 2016 HBC Transportation Systems, 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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Second book: The York Factory Express

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 15, 2016 HBC Transportation Systems, York Factory Express
Second book: The York Factory Express

  My  so-far unpublished manuscript, “The York Factory Express,” tells the stories of the York Factory Express, and of the Saskatchewan brigades. These stories are told in the words of…

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York Factory Express: Crossing of the Continental Divide to the West

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson September 10, 2016 HBC Transportation Systems, York Factory Express
York Factory Express: Crossing of the Continental Divide to the West

I am amused. Someone-out-there appears to be anxious for me to continue with the York Factory Express thread, and they “searched,” in such a way that their secret request appeared…

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  • Two Canoes: John Work comes down the Columbia River March 31, 2018
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