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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Incoming Express

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 6, 2021 "York Factory Express", Hudson's Bay Company
Incoming Express

The first York Factory Express left Fort Vancouver in March 1826, and the incoming Express generally returned to Fort Vancouver in early November or late October. The Express ran every…

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York Factory Express: Carlton House to Fort Pitt

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson April 16, 2016 "York Factory Express", Hudson's Bay Company
York Factory Express: Carlton House to Fort Pitt

Between Carlton House and Fort Pitt, the gentlemen in the incoming York Factory Express always hunted for bison on the prairies between the two forts. George Traill Allan passed through…

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Alexander Caulfield Anderson at Lachine

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 17, 2015 A Literary A. C. Anderson, Fur Trade History
Alexander Caulfield Anderson at Lachine

Alexander Caulfield Anderson was one of the most significant men of his time (the 1840’s) in the early history of what later became British Columbia, and so I thought some…

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Alexander Caulfield Anderson at Fort Nisqually

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 6, 2014 Fur Trade History, Hudson's Bay Company
Alexander Caulfield Anderson at Fort Nisqually

This is a talk I gave in front of the Anderson Island Historical Society, in Puget Sound. Alexander Caulfield Anderson had history here — he spent almost two years in…

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