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’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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Paul Kane at Jasper’s House

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson January 30, 2021 "York Factory Express", Hudson's Bay Company
Paul Kane at Jasper’s House

So, we just left Paul Kane watching as Montrose McGillivray punished a voyageur for stealing provisions of pemmican made with berries. The incoming York Factory Express party is travelling up…

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Edmonton Post Journal

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson May 16, 2020 "York Factory Express", Hudson's Bay Company
Edmonton Post Journal

As I was researching the York Factory Express, I read some journals from the posts they would have gone through on their way down the river. I didn’t get a…

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The men in the 1826 York Factory Express

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 30, 2019 "York Factory Express", Hudson's Bay Company
The men in the 1826 York Factory Express

Many of the men who travelled in the York Factory Express worked west of the Rocky Mountains for many years — some worked here for just a year or so.…

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George Barnston

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson May 18, 2019 "York Factory Express", Hudson's Bay Company
George Barnston

My tweets a little while ago were this: We commenced our Journey across the Portage at 10 a.m., our Party consisting of Messrs James McMillan, James Birnie, George Barnston, Sinclair,…

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