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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Métis Bison Hunts

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 3, 2020 "Journeys", Hudson's Bay Company
Métis Bison Hunts

“As some of my readers may not be acquainted with the Red River Settlement I will give a short account of it here,” Augustus Peers wrote in the 1840s, “although…

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Beaver

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson September 15, 2018 A Literary A. C. Anderson, Fur Trade History
Beaver

So today I am going to write about the Beaver. Why? Because I now have two fur traders who are describing this animal to their London readers. Future London readers,…

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A Stroll over the Portage La Loche

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson January 13, 2018 HBC Transportation Systems, Hudson's Bay Company
A Stroll over the Portage La Loche

In 1843, young Augustus Peers made his way with Alexis Bonamie dit L’Esperance’s Athabasca boats to Portage La Loche, where he would spend some time at Fort Simpson, McKenzie District.…

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Weather on the Lower Fraser River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson December 30, 2017 "The Brigades", Fur Trade History
Weather on the Lower Fraser River

  I wrote this blogpost a few years ago, when there was extreme cold everywhere! The same seems to be happening again, particularly on the east side of the Rocky…

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Grand Coulee

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson December 31, 2016 "The Brigades", York Factory Express
Grand Coulee

In 1848 Thomas Lowe’s York Factory Express went out by the Grand Coulee. No other express had taken that out of the way route, as far as I am aware,…

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