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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David Douglas’s Athabasca River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson March 26, 2022 "York Factory Express", HBC Transportation Systems
David Douglas’s Athabasca River

In 1827, botanist David Douglas travelled with the outgoing York Factory Express down the Athabasca River to Jasper’s House. From the height of the Rocky Mountains, as shown above, the…

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Bits and Pieces

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson September 18, 2021 "York Factory Express", Hudson's Bay Company
Bits and Pieces

Lately, in my research in other quarters, I have been running across bits and pieces of other gentlemen’s York Factory Express journals. None of them are long enough, nor interesting…

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Up the Columbia River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 31, 2021 "York Factory Express", Hudson's Bay Company
Up the Columbia River

In August 1849, clerk Thomas Lowe journeyed up the Columbia River as far as Fort Nez Percés, following the same river route that the York Factory Express had travelled in…

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Paul Kane on the Columbia River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 3, 2021 "York Factory Express", Hudson's Bay Company
Paul Kane on the Columbia River

In this post on Paul Kane’s journey to the Pacific Slopes (otherwise known as the west side of the Rocky Mountains), we are leaving Boat Encampment and making our way…

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Descending the Columbia River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson May 1, 2021 "York Factory Express", Hudson's Bay Company
Descending the Columbia River

I thought that for this series on the Columbia River, I might be able to access and read Samuel Black’s journal of his descent of the river in 1825. He…

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