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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Canots-du-Maitre

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 4, 2022 Fur Trade History, HBC Transportation Systems
Canots-du-Maitre

This is part of the thread that takes us from Lachine to the Great Lakes, and I discovered two more books on the fur trade, and looked up what they…

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Finan McDonald

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 24, 2021 "York Factory Express", Hudson's Bay Company
Finan McDonald

Finan McDonald was one of David Thompson’s men, but unlike most of his men he also worked for the Hudson’s Bay Company as a clerk at Spokane House, and later…

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Birchbark Canoes

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson May 2, 2020 "Journeys", "York Factory Express"
Birchbark Canoes

From a book titled Canoe Crossings, I learned that what made birchbark canoes so special was that the grain of the bark that covered them was transverse rather than longitudinal.…

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Two Canoes: the Athabasca River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 8, 2017 "Two Canoes", HBC Transportation Systems
Two Canoes: the Athabasca River

I am really allergic today (and have been all week) — so much so that I can hardly write at all, and will post something that does not involve a…

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Up the Athabasca River to Jasper’s House

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 20, 2016 "York Factory Express", Hudson's Bay Company
Up the Athabasca River to Jasper’s House

This is the eighteenth leg of the York Factory Express stream, and today we are travelling up the Athabasca River to Jasper’s House, west of Fort Assiniboine. Interestingly, in some…

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