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 McLoughlin

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson March 20, 2021 Alexander Caulfield Anderson, Hudson's Bay Company No Comments
Fort McLoughlin

Fort McLoughlin was a Hudson’s Bay Company post, built on what the HBC men called “Milbanke Sound,” on the Northwest Coast, in 1833. Alexander Caulfield Anderson had only just arrived…

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Railways and The York Factory Express

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 14, 2020 Hudson's Bay Company, York Factory Express
Railways and The York Factory Express

Everything ends. Even the York Factory Express, that ran for twenty-six years across the Rocky Mountains to Edmonton House, came to a sudden, crashing, end. The last outbound York Factory…

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Sioux Island Rapid

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 17, 2019 Hudson's Bay Company, York Factory Express
Sioux Island Rapid

Even if we do not figure out the answer, it’s a lovely little painting that we can all enjoy. It preserves a little bit of Washington history that has flooded…

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Two Canoes Through the Fraser Canyon

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 23, 2018 "Two Canoes", Fur Trade History
Two Canoes Through the Fraser Canyon

In this last leg of the Two Canoes series, I will bring Governor George Simpson down the Fraser River, from the mouth of the Thompson River to Fort Langley. Those…

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Saskatchewan Horses

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson January 27, 2018 Fur Trade History, HBC Transportation Systems
Saskatchewan Horses

Did you know that the HBC men west of the Rocky Mountains imported horses from the Saskatchewan district to increase the number of horses in their own district? They did…

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