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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Paul Kane’s “Big Hill”

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson March 27, 2021 "York Factory Express", Hudson's Bay Company
Paul Kane’s “Big Hill”

So in 1846, Paul Kane and the few remaining men of the incoming York Factory Express spent their night trying to keep warm at their encampment on the shores of…

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Paul Kane at Jasper’s House

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson January 30, 2021 "York Factory Express", Hudson's Bay Company
Paul Kane at Jasper’s House

So, we just left Paul Kane watching as Montrose McGillivray punished a voyageur for stealing provisions of pemmican made with berries. The incoming York Factory Express party is travelling up…

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Paul Kane leaves Edmonton House

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 28, 2020 "York Factory Express", Hudson's Bay Company
Paul Kane leaves Edmonton House

“We remained at Edmonton till the morning of the 6th [October],” Paul Kane wrote, “preparing for the arduous journey which now lay before us.” Paul Kane was travelling west with…

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Thomas Lowe and the York Factory Express

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 2, 2019 "York Factory Express", Hudson's Bay Company
Thomas Lowe and the York Factory Express

Thomas Lowe worked for the Hudson’s Bay Company from 1842 to his retirement in 1849, and he kept journals of his experiences in the Columbia district the entire time he…

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Alexis Bellanger

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson April 11, 2015 Deaths and Murders, Metis in the West
Alexis Bellanger

This is a British Columbia story that many have heard — a story of multiple deaths and murders. The first murder (that of Bellanger) happened on the Fraser River just…

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