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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All Canadian Route 2

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 10, 2018 Brigade Trails, Explorations
All Canadian Route 2

Well, this week we will catch these Ontario “greenhorns” up to all the other groups of men who, in previous posts, are attempting to find their way to the Klondike…

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The All Canadian Route

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 3, 2018 Brigade Trails, Explorations
The All Canadian Route

I am, of course, speaking of the route to the Klondike gold fields via the Athabasca River to Athabasca Lake, where we left the first writers in a post found…

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Pierre Pambrun Jr.

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 27, 2018 Deaths and Murders, Metis in the West
Pierre Pambrun Jr.

There is, of course, always more to the stories I write! I looked at the index in the HBRS book, London Correspondence Inward from Eden Colvile, 1849-1852, and found this,…

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Landmarks on the Upper Hayes

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 20, 2018 "York Factory Express", Hudson's Bay Company
Landmarks on the Upper Hayes

This is a continuation of a blog post that I published on September 22nd, and it tells the stories of the portages and other landmarks above Swampy Lake, that were…

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Lillooet Lake to Fort Langley

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 6, 2018 "The HBC Brigades", A Literary A. C. Anderson
Lillooet Lake to Fort Langley

We begin again with Alexander Caulfield Anderson’s journal of his exploration/expedition from Kamloops to Fort Langley, by what later became the Harrison-Lillooet Trail. The year is 1846, and his party…

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