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’s Athabasca River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson March 26, 2022 "York Factory Express", HBC Transportation Systems
David Douglas’s Athabasca River

In 1827, botanist David Douglas travelled with the outgoing York Factory Express down the Athabasca River to Jasper’s House. From the height of the Rocky Mountains, as shown above, the…

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Two Canoes: Jasper Valley

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson September 16, 2017 "Two Canoes", Fur Trade History
Two Canoes: Jasper Valley

In October 1823, John Work and Peter Skene Ogden are making their way west from York Factory, on Hudson Bay, to their new employment on the Pacific slopes. For Work…

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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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