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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Leather Pass

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson September 9, 2017 "York Factory Express", Hudson's Bay Company
Leather Pass

As a fur trade descendant, I have always called the northern pass through the mountains “Leather Pass.” Today this is officially known as the Yellowhead, which comes from its original…

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Two Canoes: to Dunvegan

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson April 22, 2017 "The Brigades", "Two Canoes"
Two Canoes: to Dunvegan

In this post we will continue with Governor Simpson’s journey west by the Peace River. In the last post they stopped at Fort Vermilion, “where we found Mr. Paul Fraser…

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Salmon Runs, 1843 to 1858

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson December 20, 2015 Fur Trade History, Natives in the Fur Trade
Salmon Runs, 1843 to 1858

As a BC-ite and fur trade historian of sorts, I have been brought up on the notion that the salmon runs were regular events, and that only once in every…

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Charles John Griffin

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson December 5, 2015 Fort Victoria stories, Hudson's Bay Company
Charles John Griffin

I first ran into Charles John Griffin in the York Factory Express journals of 1849, when he came into the country West of the Rocky Mountains with John Charles’s incoming…

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