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James Anderson’s Journey part 3

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson January 23, 2021 "Journeys", Hudson's Bay Company
James Anderson’s Journey part 3

In this post we are following James Anderson as he and his party paddled across Great Slave Lake, heading north from Fort Resolution to McLeod Bay. At this point he…

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Musk Ox

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 21, 2020 "Journeys", Hudson's Bay Company
Musk Ox

The musk oxen are unusual animals found in the Barren Grounds of the Northwest Territories, in Northern Canada, and almost no where else. Their relationships are interesting: they are closer…

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James Anderson’s Journey part 2

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 31, 2020 "Journeys", Hudson's Bay Company
James Anderson’s Journey part 2

So, in our last post in this series (which we are just beginning) I left Chief Trader James Anderson A, making his way up the Mackenzie River from Fort Simpson…

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James Anderson’s Journey

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 25, 2019 "Journeys", Hudson's Bay Company
James Anderson’s Journey

James Anderson’s journey took him all the way north from Fort Simpson to the Arctic Ocean in 1855. Anderson’s journey began at the Hudson’s Bay Company post which he has…

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Flood at Fort Norman

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 10, 2019 "Journeys", Hudson's Bay Company
Flood at Fort Norman

In 1852, Chief Trader James Anderson (A), who was then in charge of the Athabasca District, made a journey from the district’s headquarters of Fort Simpson, down the Mackenzie River…

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