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: the Athabasca River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 8, 2017 "Two Canoes", HBC Transportation Systems
Two Canoes: the Athabasca River

I am really allergic today (and have been all week) — so much so that I can hardly write at all, and will post something that does not involve a…

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The Kettle Valley

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 10, 2017 "The Brigades", Brigade Trails
The Kettle Valley

In 1849 the Fort Colvile brigades under Alexander Caulfield Anderson came north to Kamloops, where they joined the New Caledonia brigades on their journey to Fort Hope. However, while they…

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Two Canoes: the Athabasca River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson March 25, 2017 "Two Canoes", York Factory Express
Two Canoes: the Athabasca River

In 1823, John Work and Peter Skene Ogden traveled west to the Columbia District by the Athabasca River and Fort Assiniboine. Thus far, they are not paddling (or in this…

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