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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Up the Columbia River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 31, 2021 "York Factory Express", Hudson's Bay Company
Up the Columbia River

In August 1849, clerk Thomas Lowe journeyed up the Columbia River as far as Fort Nez Percés, following the same river route that the York Factory Express had travelled in…

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Paul Kane on the Columbia River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 3, 2021 "York Factory Express", Hudson's Bay Company
Paul Kane on the Columbia River

In this post on Paul Kane’s journey to the Pacific Slopes (otherwise known as the west side of the Rocky Mountains), we are leaving Boat Encampment and making our way…

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Fort Pitt

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 18, 2020 "York Factory Express", Hudson's Bay Company
Fort Pitt

  Fort Pitt was a provisioning post, constructed in 1829-31, 217 miles downriver from Edmonton House. Before this post was built, the men of the outgoing Saskatchewan Brigades (which included…

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Cumberland House

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 6, 2020 "York Factory Express", Hudson's Bay Company
Cumberland House

There is little mention of the York Factory Express and Saskatchewan Brigades passing through Cumberland House in the post journals in the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives. Nevertheless, there is lots…

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Edmonton Post Journal

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson May 16, 2020 "York Factory Express", Hudson's Bay Company
Edmonton Post Journal

As I was researching the York Factory Express, I read some journals from the posts they would have gone through on their way down the river. I didn’t get a…

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