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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Grand Rapid to Fort Chipewyan, Athabasca Lake

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson September 29, 2018 Brigade Trails, Explorations
Grand Rapid to Fort Chipewyan, Athabasca Lake

So, let’s continue our journey down the Athabasca River from Athabasca Landing, heading toward Fort Chipewyan, on Athabasca Lake. That is the first major stop, for the HBC men at…

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The Klondike Trail

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson September 1, 2018 Brigade Trails, Explorations
The Klondike Trail

The Klondike trail is very interesting to me, but not because it led gold-miners into the goldfields on the Yukon River. This was an old trail, used for the first…

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The Fraser Canyon War

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 7, 2018 "The Brigades", Brigade Trails
The Fraser Canyon War

I have to re-write the last two chapters of my brigades book because I fell into a story I had not researched nor discovered until now. Why had I not…

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