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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Paul Kane’s “Big Hill”

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson March 27, 2021 Hudson's Bay Company, York Factory Express 2 Comments
Paul Kane’s “Big Hill”

So in 1846, Paul Kane and the few remaining men of the incoming York Factory Express spent their night trying to keep warm at their encampment on the shores of…

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Paul Kane leaves Jasper’s House

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson February 27, 2021 Hudson's Bay Company, York Factory Express
Paul Kane leaves Jasper’s House

Artist Paul Kane was not impressed with the little post of Jasper’s House, but, fortunately for him, the incoming York Factory Express did not remain at the post for long.…

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The York Factory Express by ZOOM

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 11, 2020 Writing, York Factory Express
The York Factory Express by ZOOM

I am setting up ZOOM: Everyone else is doing it, so why not me? I have talks set up at various locations in Washington State and in Alberta and beyond,…

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Measles and Dysentery

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 1, 2020 Hudson's Bay Company, York Factory Express
Measles and Dysentery

I wrote about the 1847-1848 measles epidemic in my first book, The Pathfinder, in which I said: Measles began to sicken a few Dakelh around the fort [Fort Alexandria, Fraser…

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Pemmican

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson April 4, 2020 Metis in the West, York Factory Express
Pemmican

Pemmican was not eaten west of the Rocky Mountains, and it was not part of our experience. As a matter of fact, when the men of the York Factory Express,…

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