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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Anderson and the River of Rapids

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 18, 2023 "Journeys", Hudson's Bay Company
Anderson and the River of Rapids

James Anderson is continuing his way up the Back River, having spent the night just north of Baillie’s River. Now it is time to ascend the long rapid — the…

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Anderson at Lake Garry

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson March 11, 2023 "Journeys", Anderson-Seton Family
Anderson at Lake Garry

So let us continue James Anderson’s journey home from Montreal Island and Adelaide Peninsula, on the edge of the Arctic Ocean. On their journey south from the sea, they are…

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James Anderson in Lake McDougall

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson March 5, 2022 "Journeys", Hudson's Bay Company
James Anderson in Lake McDougall

Chief Trader James Anderson, and his clerk James Green Stewart, are now making their way through massive Lake McDougall on the Great Fish River, on their way north to the…

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