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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Hayes River Posts

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson April 16, 2022 "York Factory Express", Fur Trade History
Hayes River Posts

In 1826, when the first York Factory Express men descended the Hayes River from Norway House to York Factory, they passed through only one Hayes River post: Oxford House. That…

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Fort Colvile farm

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson March 15, 2020 Hudson's Bay Company, James and Charlot Birnie of Cathlamet
Fort Colvile farm

J. Orin Oliphant wrote an excellent article on “Old Fort Colville [Colvile]”, and I am again dipping into it to discover what farm animals were to be found there over…

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Oxford House

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson May 11, 2019 "Journeys", "York Factory Express"
Oxford House

In about 1843, a young gentleman arrived by dogsled at Oxford House. “About the middle of our third day” of travel from York Factory, “we left the woods and, descending…

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Two Canoes: West from Oxford House

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson May 14, 2016 "Two Canoes", Fur Trade History
Two Canoes: West from Oxford House

  I am finding the journals of these two canoe journeys very interesting, and so will continue this thread a little sooner than I might otherwise have done. It is…

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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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