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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Joe Burke

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson April 24, 2021 "York Factory Express", HBC Transportation Systems
Joe Burke

  In his outgoing York Factory Express journal of 1847, Thomas Lowe lists the passengers who are travelling up the Columbia River with him. A mysterious “Joe Burke” was among…

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George Traill Allan

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 9, 2019 "York Factory Express", Hudson's Bay Company
George Traill Allan

In 1841, George Traill Allan took out the York Factory Express to Hudson Bay, ten years after he had come into the territory in the 1831 Columbia Express. He is…

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Robert Birnie

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 11, 2017 Hudson's Bay Company, Metis in the West
Robert Birnie

Robert Birnie was the son of James Birnie, of the NWC and HBC. He was born in “Oregon [Country] in the year 1824, 7th February, place now called Astoria, it…

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Peter Skene Ogden reports on the California gold rush

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson February 28, 2015 "The Brigades", Hudson's Bay Company
Peter Skene Ogden reports on the California gold rush

Peter Skene Ogden, Chief Factor at Fort Vancouver in 1848, was definitely a character, and his private letters prove that. However, the hard part of reading Ogden’s letters is his…

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