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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James Anderson on Lake Garry

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson February 5, 2022 "Journeys", Hudson's Bay Company
James Anderson on Lake Garry

James Anderson and James Green Stewart, and their exploring party, has now reached Lake Garry, on the Great Fish River on their way north to the Arctic Ocean in July…

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Musk Ox

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 21, 2020 "Journeys", Hudson's Bay Company
Musk Ox

The musk oxen are unusual animals found in the Barren Grounds of the Northwest Territories, in Northern Canada, and almost no where else. Their relationships are interesting: they are closer…

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James Anderson’s Journey part 2

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 31, 2020 "Journeys", Hudson's Bay Company
James Anderson’s Journey part 2

So, in our last post in this series (which we are just beginning) I left Chief Trader James Anderson A, making his way up the Mackenzie River from Fort Simpson…

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James Anderson’s Journey

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 25, 2019 "Journeys", Hudson's Bay Company
James Anderson’s Journey

James Anderson’s journey took him all the way north from Fort Simpson to the Arctic Ocean in 1855. Anderson’s journey began at the Hudson’s Bay Company post which he has…

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To Fort Simpson

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 17, 2019 "Journeys", Hudson's Bay Company
To Fort Simpson

So, we are back to Robert Campbell’s journals, which are found in the B.C. Archives. In 1851, Robert Campbell continued his journey up the Mackenzie River from Fort Norman to…

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