Nancy Marguerite Anderson
I am Nancy Marguerite Anderson; an accidental historian writing the stories of the HBC men who worked west of the Rocky Mountains before 1858 — so many good stories! The…
Read moreSimpson to Norway House
It is time now to bring Governor George Simpson to Norway House and so to close down this journal. At the moment, the Governor is at Fort Garry, which place…
Read moreAnderson to Clinton Colden Lake
Chief Trader James Anderson, his clerk James Green Stewart, and his small party of men, have made their way south from the Arctic Ocean, hoping to reach Great Slave Lake…
Read moreYork Factory
In 1842, the young Augustus Peers arrived by the London ship at York Factory, and spent his first winter in the HBC fur trade there. Ten years later he wrote…
Read moreSimpson to Fort Garry
In the last post, we left Governor Simpson heading south and east to Fort Garry. The year is 1825. At the moment, he and his small party of men are…
Read moreFort Pelly to Fort Garry
This is a continuation of George Traill Allan’s journey from Carlton House to Fort Garry, via Fort Pelly, in summer 1841. Six years earlier, in 1835, James Douglas had taken…
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