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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Anderson’s journey continues

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 14, 2023 "Journeys", Hudson's Bay Company
Anderson’s journey continues

Anderson’s journey continues: James Anderson and his party have reached “Beechey Lake,” and are encamped above the five sets of rapids that had led them to into that Lake —…

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James Anderson on Lake Garry

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson February 5, 2022 "Journeys", Hudson's Bay Company
James Anderson on Lake Garry

James Anderson and James Green Stewart, and their exploring party, has now reached Lake Garry, on the Great Fish River on their way north to the Arctic Ocean in July…

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James Anderson on the Back River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 24, 2021 "Journeys", Explorations
James Anderson on the Back River

On July 16, 1855, James Anderson and James Green Stewart continued their journey down the Back River, travelling from Lake Beechy northward, toward the Arctic Ocean. As you already know,…

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James Anderson’s Mountain Portage

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson February 20, 2021 "Journeys", Hudson's Bay Company
James Anderson’s Mountain Portage

  James Anderson’s Map of the southern portion of the Mountain Portage,  from Hudson’s Bay Company Archives, E.37/29, and used with their permission.   The above map comes from the…

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Musk Ox

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 21, 2020 "Journeys", Hudson's Bay Company
Musk Ox

The musk oxen are unusual animals found in the Barren Grounds of the Northwest Territories, in Northern Canada, and almost no where else. Their relationships are interesting: they are closer…

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