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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David Douglas goes home

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson May 28, 2022 "York Factory Express", HBC Transportation Systems
David Douglas goes home

In this post, botanist David Douglas heads for home in England, after his journey down the Athabasca River with the outgoing York Factory Express. Edward Ermatinger was the leader of…

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David Douglas’s Athabasca River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson March 26, 2022 "York Factory Express", HBC Transportation Systems
David Douglas’s Athabasca River

In 1827, botanist David Douglas travelled with the outgoing York Factory Express down the Athabasca River to Jasper’s House. From the height of the Rocky Mountains, as shown above, the…

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Finan McDonald

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 24, 2021 "York Factory Express", Hudson's Bay Company
Finan McDonald

Finan McDonald was one of David Thompson’s men, but unlike most of his men he also worked for the Hudson’s Bay Company as a clerk at Spokane House, and later…

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Bits and Pieces

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson September 18, 2021 "York Factory Express", Hudson's Bay Company
Bits and Pieces

Lately, in my research in other quarters, I have been running across bits and pieces of other gentlemen’s York Factory Express journals. None of them are long enough, nor interesting…

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Clerk James Douglas

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson September 5, 2021 "York Factory Express", Hudson's Bay Company
Clerk James Douglas

James Douglas was a clerk when he took out the York Factory Express to Hudson Bay in 1835; although he returned to the Columbia District as a Chief Trader, having…

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