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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James Anderson in Lake Pelly

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson December 11, 2021 "Journeys", Hudson's Bay Company

James Anderson and James Green Stewart have now reached and passed through Hawk Rapid, on the Great Fish River. Back did not name this rapid-filled chasm Hawk Rapids, but the…

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