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 moreThe Journey Out
It is time to continue with the story of George Simpson’s journey south from Fort Wedderburn, on Athabasca Lake, to Norway House and the Hayes River. Simpson had no idea…
Read moreOgden at Green Lake
So let us continue Peter Skene Ogden’s story of his time in the North West Company in the years before 1821, when the two companies merged. In the first post…
Read moreStewart’s Journal 6
I ended the last section of James Green Stewart’s journal at Sussex Lake, on the return journey of the Arctic Expedition to the Sea in search of Sir John Franklin’s…
Read moreSimpson at Fort Langley
Late in the evening of October 10, 1828, Governor George Simpson arrived at Fort Langley, accompanied by Chief Trader Archibald McDonald, who was to take over the charge of…
Read moreFort Norman Stories
“Fort Norman, though not classed among the head posts of the district, is nevertheless a good fur trading post,” Augustus Peers wrote, “and in good years may vie with many…
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