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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Two Canoes: John Work comes down the Columbia River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson March 31, 2018 "Two Canoes", "York Factory Express"
Two Canoes: John Work comes down the Columbia River

So in the last John Work journal, he and Peter Skene Ogden had reached Boat Encampment, having come down the Big Hill from Athabasca Pass. In this bit of journal,…

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An addition to the Cannibalism post

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson March 17, 2018 Deaths and Murders, Fur Trade History
An addition to the Cannibalism post

This will be a shorter-than-my-normal post, and it is part of the Cannibalism post of a few weeks ago. But this story is interesting: it is Paul Kane’s story of…

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Cannibalism

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson March 3, 2018 "York Factory Express", Deaths and Murders
Cannibalism

As you will see in this post, https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/the-murderer/ , there was an Indigenous man at the Fort Alexandria post that creeped everyone else out, because of his supposed direct involvement…

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York Factory Express: “Falling Down the Columbia”

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 26, 2016 "Two Canoes", "York Factory Express"
York Factory Express: “Falling Down the Columbia”

In this section of the York Factory Express journals, I am going to continue with John Work’s journal of 1823. Remember, please, that he was coming into the territory before…

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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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