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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The Murderer

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 29, 2015 Deaths and Murders, Natives in the Fur Trade
The Murderer

In the memoirs of James Robert Anderson, son of Alexander Caulfield Anderson, there are the beginnings of many little stories, which I am sometimes able to develop into larger ones.…

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Governor Blanshard

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 15, 2015 Fort Victoria stories, Fur Trade History

Young James Anderson, A.C. Anderson’s son, was about ten years old when he attended the school inside the walls of Fort Victoria [Victoria, B.C.]. In his memoirs, he wrote about…

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John Work’s Journey to the Columbia District, 1823

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 25, 2015 "Two Canoes", "York Factory Express"
John Work’s Journey to the Columbia District, 1823

Three years before the York Factory Express existed, John Work travelled over much of their route, on his way from York Factory to Spokane House, on the Spokane River. He…

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The Historic Hayes River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 4, 2015 "York Factory Express", Hudson's Bay Company
The Historic Hayes River

Once they left York Factory, built where the Hayes River flowed into Hudson Bay, the York Factory Express men followed up the “York Factory River” towards home. (The York Factory…

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Grand Rapids

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 27, 2015 "Journeys", "York Factory Express"
Grand Rapids

In 1842, Alexander Caulfield Anderson led the York Factory Express to Hudson Bay. As always, the express men descended the Saskatchewan River to Lake Winnipeg, and two or three months…

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