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Carlton to Red River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson April 7, 2018 Hudson's Bay Company Employees, York Factory Express
Carlton to Red River

In most of the York Factory Express journals I managed to collect, the Annual Council Meeting for the Hudson’s Bay Company was held in Norway House. That meant that the…

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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  My  so-far unpublished manuscript, “The York Factory Express,” tells the stories of the York Factory Express, and of the Saskatchewan brigades.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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The Athabasca Portage North from Edmonton House

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 2, 2016 HBC Transportation Systems, York Factory Express
The Athabasca Portage North from Edmonton House

In this York Factory Express post (the Seventeenth in this series) I am going to comment on Edward Ermatinger’s 1827 incoming Express (called the Columbia Express), as they cross over…

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York Factory Express: Fort Pitt and West

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson May 7, 2016 HBC Transportation Systems, York Factory Express
York Factory Express: Fort Pitt and West

The men of the incoming York Factory Express have, by this time, been away from their home post of Fort Vancouver for some five months now, and all are beginning…

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York Factory Express: Carlton House to Fort Pitt

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson April 16, 2016 HBC Transportation Systems, York Factory Express
York Factory Express: Carlton House to Fort Pitt

George Traill Allan was a tiny man, only about five feet tall, and delicately built. Yet, he joined the “rough and tumble of the fur trade,” and had an important…

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