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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Warre and Vavasour

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson January 14, 2023 "Headquarters", York Factory Express 2 Comments
Warre and Vavasour

Captain Henry James Warre, a British officer, and Lieutenant Mervin Vavasour, of the Royal Engineers, visited Forts Vancouver and Victoria in 1845 and 1846. Both Warre and Vavasour presented themselves…

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Paul Kane at Boat Encampment

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson December 4, 2022 "York Factory Express", HBC Transportation Systems
Paul Kane at Boat Encampment

This blogpost is a continuation of the Paul Kane thread, wherein he is travelling out of the territory West of the Rocky Mountains with the Fall Express. The year is…

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David Douglas’s Rockies

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson February 19, 2022 "York Factory Express", HBC Transportation Systems
David Douglas’s Rockies

In 1827, botanist David Douglas travelled out of the Columbia District with Edward Ermatinger’s outgoing York Factory Express. In this section of his journal we will be reading a description…

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James Birnie and the 1826 York Factory Express

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson April 30, 2016 "York Factory Express", James and Charlot Birnie of Cathlamet
James Birnie and the 1826 York Factory Express

We, who are descendants of James Birnie of Spokane House and Fort Vancouver, have known he went out in the 1826 York Factory Express to Hudson Bay. What we did…

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