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’s Journey Home

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson January 28, 2023 "Journeys", Anderson-Seton Family
Anderson’s Journey Home

On Friday August 10, 1855, James Anderson begins his journey home, leaving the Adelaide Peninsula behind him. With his crew, he “Left our encampment at 3 1/2 a.m. The ice…

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Anderson reaches Adelaide Peninsula

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 8, 2022 "Journeys", Anderson-Seton Family
Anderson reaches Adelaide Peninsula

In this blogpost Chief Trader James Anderson, his clerk James Green Stewart, and their party of fourteen experienced men, have reached Montreal Island, and will move on to the western…

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