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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Fort Yukon

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 12, 2019 "Journeys", Hudson's Bay Company
Fort Yukon

In 1847, HBC trader Alexander Hunter Murray built Fort Yukon on the Yukon River, just inside the boundaries of what was then Russian Territory, on the instructions of Chief Factor…

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Notes re the Liard River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson April 20, 2019 "Journeys", Hudson's Bay Company
Notes re the Liard River

I found a lovely little document the other day, while I was looking for something else. It is James Anderson’s Notes on the Navigation of the West Branch or Liard…

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Robert Campbell and the Porcupine River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson March 23, 2019 "Journeys", Explorations
Robert Campbell and the Porcupine River

From Fort Yukon, Robert Campbell and his men hurried up the Porcupine River to join Mr. Alexander Hunter Murray, who was already on his way to Lapierre House with the…

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A Stroll over the Portage La Loche

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson January 13, 2018 HBC Transportation Systems, Hudson's Bay Company
A Stroll over the Portage La Loche

In 1843, young Augustus Peers made his way with Alexis Bonamie dit L’Esperance’s Athabasca boats to Portage La Loche, where he would spend some time at Fort Simpson, McKenzie District.…

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Augustus Peers’s journal

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 1, 2016 "Journeys", Hudson's Bay Company
Augustus Peers’s journal

Augustus Peers was the older brother of Henry Newsham Peers, of Forts Langley and Victoria. Henry was a man who made history west of the Rocky Mountains: he will be…

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