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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French River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson March 18, 2023 Fur Trade History, HBC Transportation Systems
French River

I have always been told that the French River is one of the most beautiful rivers the voyageurs travelled on their way to the interior. It was part of the…

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More on the Ottawa River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson February 4, 2023 Fur Trade History, Hudson's Bay Company
More on the Ottawa River

In this post we continue our journey up the Grand, or Ottawa River, following in the footsteps of the voyageurs and gentlemen of the North West Company, and, after 1821,…

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Ottawa River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 23, 2022 Fur Trade History, HBC Transportation Systems
Ottawa River

The rapids-filled Ottawa River led the North West Company voyageurs, and the later HBC Lachine Brigades, northward from the Lake of the Two Mountains to the mouth of the Mattawa…

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Canots-du-Maitre

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 4, 2022 Fur Trade History, HBC Transportation Systems
Canots-du-Maitre

This is part of the thread that takes us from Lachine to the Great Lakes, and I discovered two more books on the fur trade, and looked up what they…

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Jason Allard’s Stories of his Father

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 30, 2018 Hudson's Bay Company, Metis in the West
Jason Allard’s Stories of his Father

Jason Ovide Allard grew up in the HBC, at Forts Langley and Yale. His father was a Canadien named Ovid Allard, who had several Indigenous wives. Jason’s mother was an…

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