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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The Nelson River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson September 20, 2025 "Headquarters", Fur Trade History
The Nelson River

The mighty Nelson River flowed east from Playgreen Lake, where Norway House stood, making its way down the steep and rocky east side of the Canadian Shield to Hudson Bay…

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Nancy Marguerite Anderson

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson April 6, 2025 "Journeys", "The HBC Brigades", "York Factory Express"
Nancy Marguerite Anderson

I am Nancy Marguerite Anderson; an accidental historian writing the stories of the HBC men who worked west of the Rocky Mountains before 1858 — so many good stories! The…

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Connolly’s Brigades and McLeod’s Express

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 24, 2024 "The HBC Brigades", "York Factory Express"
Connolly’s Brigades and McLeod’s Express

In 1826, the expresses and brigades had different, but similar experiences as they passed through the range of mountains that separated the Pacific Coast from the interior of what is…

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Polar Bears

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson September 9, 2023 "Journeys", "York Factory Express"
Polar Bears

Yes, Dave-In-Eden, I CAN tell you some polar bear stories! And these stories are even from York Factory, or the original once-living bear in the story came from there. Augustus…

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Descending the Hayes River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson December 22, 2019 "Journeys", "York Factory Express"
Descending the Hayes River

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