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!

York Factory Express, Norway House and the Crossing of Lake Winnipeg

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 21, 2015 Hudson's Bay Company, York Factory Express

On their arrival at Norway House, the men of the returning York Factory Express (now called the Columbia Express) knew they had completed the most difficult part of their journey:…

York Factory Express, Carlton, Cumberland and Norway Houses

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 8, 2014 Hudson's Bay Company, York Factory Express

In 1847, Fort Vancouver’s clerk Thomas Lowe began his journey from Carlton House, on the North Saskatchewan River, on the morning of June 1st, “at daylight, and were enabled to…