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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To Moose Portage, Beaver River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 19, 2016 "Two Canoes", Fur Trade History

Two groups of canoe-men traveled west from York Factory, on their way to New Caledonia. Both groups have arrived at Ile-a-la Crosse, and their next major hurdle is the Methye…

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Fur trade “Pipes”

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 6, 2015 Fur Trade History, Hudson's Bay Company
Fur trade “Pipes”

Everywhere in the fur trade of the North West Company, and of the Hudson’s Bay, was tobacco — and every man, woman, and child in the trade smoked tobacco in…

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Fur Trade Reading

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 23, 2014 Fur Trade History
Fur Trade Reading

Here is my second post, with more books that might be considered essential fur trade reading. It is odd how this subject has hit a nerve, but I understand why.…

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