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 at Beechy Lake

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 3, 2023 "Journeys", Hudson's Bay Company
Anderson at Beechy Lake

In my last post of this series, we left James Anderson and his party of men camped at the exact same spot that Captain George Back had camped at almost…

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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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Anderson’s Journey Home

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson January 28, 2023 "Journeys", Anderson-Seton Family
Anderson’s Journey Home

On Friday August 10, 1855, James Anderson begins his journey home, leaving the Adelaide Peninsula behind him. With his crew, he “Left our encampment at 3 1/2 a.m. The ice…

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The Story of a Ship

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 12, 2022 "Journeys", Deaths and Murders
The Story of a Ship

As you already know from the hints I have dropped, something DID happen in the frozen wastes of Adelaide Peninsula when James Anderson and his crew of men were there.…

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Anderson on Montreal Island

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 30, 2022 "Journeys", Fur Trade History
Anderson on Montreal Island

The year is 1855, and James Anderson and his party of men, which includes James Green Stewart, have paddled down the Back, or Great Fish River. On August 1 they…

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