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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Canots-du-Maitre

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 4, 2022 Fur Trade History, HBC Transportation Systems
Canots-du-Maitre

This is part of the thread that takes us from Lachine to the Great Lakes, and I discovered two more books on the fur trade, and looked up what they…

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Leaving Lachine

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson May 21, 2022 Fur Trade History, Hudson's Bay Company
Leaving Lachine

All of the North West Company men, and many of the HBC men, entered Rupertsland via the system of rivers that led from Lachine, on the St. Lawrence River, to…

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Norway House fire

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 25, 2020 "York Factory Express", Hudson's Bay Company
Norway House fire

I am proofing my York Factory Express manuscript, which is an interesting process. It is a chance to catch errors, and I found one. This is what I said in…

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A Look-Back at James Birnie’s life

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 4, 2020 Fur Trade History, James and Charlot Birnie of Cathlamet
A Look-Back at James Birnie’s life

So, in 1846, James Birnie retired, a disappointed man, after 28 years of working in the fur trade of the North West Company and the Hudson’s Bay Company. How did…

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Jason Allard’s Stories of his Father

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 30, 2018 Hudson's Bay Company, Metis in the West
Jason Allard’s Stories of his Father

Jason Ovide Allard grew up in the HBC, at Forts Langley and Yale. His father was a Canadien named Ovid Allard, who had several Indigenous wives. Jason’s mother was an…

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