NANCY MARGUERITE ANDERSON

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Simon McGillivray Jr.

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson September 12, 2026 "Headquarters", Hudson's Bay Company 2 Comments
Simon McGillivray Jr.

On September 22, 1820, George Simpson noted that “Messrs. [Jonas] Oxley & [George Peter] Andries have arrived” at Fort Wedderburn, “also Messrs. [Aulay] McAulay & [Amable] Grignon; the latter Gentlemen…

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Peter Skene Ogden

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 22, 2026 Fur Trade History, North West Company
Peter Skene Ogden

Peter Skene Ogden is the next gentleman to be placed in charge of Fort St. James, New Caledonia. He arrived at the post in 1835, but there is not a…

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Over Portage La Loche

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 11, 2026 "Headquarters", HBC Transportation Systems, Hudson's Bay Company
Over Portage La Loche

In 1820, Governor locum tenans George Simpson and his Athabasca brigades arrived at Fort Superior, the HBC post on Lac Ile-a-la-Crosse, and departed it once more for the North. The…

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Portage La Loche

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 6, 2026 "Journeys", HBC Transportation Systems
Portage La Loche

In 1843, Augustus Richard Peers made his way north by the Sturgeon-Weir River and the Churchill, to the Ile-a-la-Crosse post on Lac Ile-a-la-Crosse. There he met Roderick McKenzie’s wife and…

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The Pas and Cumberland House

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson May 9, 2026 "Journeys", HBC Transportation Systems
The Pas and Cumberland House

HBC clerk Augustus Peers continues his journey west and north, from Cedar Lake on the Saskatchewan River, to the Pas and Cumberland House, the latter of which stands on Cumberland…

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