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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James Anderson on the Back River 1

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 5, 2021 "Journeys", Explorations
James Anderson on the Back River 1

So James Anderson and James Green Stewart and their men have now reached the headwaters of the Great Fish River, and will begin their journey north to the Arctic Ocean.…

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James Anderson’s Mountain Portage

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson February 20, 2021 "Journeys", Hudson's Bay Company
James Anderson’s Mountain Portage

  James Anderson’s Map of the southern portion of the Mountain Portage,  from Hudson’s Bay Company Archives, E.37/29, and used with their permission.   The above map comes from the…

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James Anderson’s Journey part 3

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson January 23, 2021 "Journeys", Hudson's Bay Company
James Anderson’s Journey part 3

In this post we are following James Anderson as he and his party paddled across Great Slave Lake, heading north from Fort Resolution to McLeod Bay. At this point he…

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Musk Ox

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 21, 2020 "Journeys", Hudson's Bay Company
Musk Ox

The musk oxen are unusual animals found in the Barren Grounds of the Northwest Territories, in Northern Canada, and almost no where else. Their relationships are interesting: they are closer…

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James Anderson’s Journey part 2

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 31, 2020 "Journeys", Hudson's Bay Company
James Anderson’s Journey part 2

So, in our last post in this series (which we are just beginning) I left Chief Trader James Anderson A, making his way up the Mackenzie River from Fort Simpson…

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