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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David Douglas goes home

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson May 28, 2022 "York Factory Express", HBC Transportation Systems
David Douglas goes home

In this post, botanist David Douglas heads for home in England, after his journey down the Athabasca River with the outgoing York Factory Express. Edward Ermatinger was the leader of…

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Paul Kane leaves Edmonton House

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 28, 2020 "York Factory Express", Hudson's Bay Company
Paul Kane leaves Edmonton House

“We remained at Edmonton till the morning of the 6th [October],” Paul Kane wrote, “preparing for the arduous journey which now lay before us.” Paul Kane was travelling west with…

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Two Canoes: the Athabasca River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson March 25, 2017 "Two Canoes", "York Factory Express"
Two Canoes: the Athabasca River

In 1823, John Work and Peter Skene Ogden traveled west to the Columbia District by the Athabasca River and Fort Assiniboine. Thus far, they are not paddling (or in this…

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The Athabasca Portage North from Edmonton House

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 2, 2016 "York Factory Express", Hudson's Bay Company
The Athabasca Portage North from Edmonton House

In this York Factory Express post (the Seventeenth in this series) I am going to comment on Edward Ermatinger’s 1827 incoming Express (called the Columbia Express), as they cross over…

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James Birnie, 1826

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 9, 2015 "York Factory Express", James and Charlot Birnie of Cathlamet
James Birnie, 1826

My great-great-grandfather was a member of the 1826 York Factory Express journey that crossed the Rocky Mountains from the Columbia River to Hudson Bay and return. I have known this…

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