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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The Back River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson May 8, 2021 "Journeys", Hudson's Bay Company
The Back River

In this blogpost I am continuing the story of the journey that James Anderson and James Green Stewart made to the Arctic Ocean in summer 1855. James Anderson was Chief…

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The Mountain Portage, continued.

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson March 13, 2021 "Journeys", Hudson's Bay Company
The Mountain Portage, continued.

We ended my last blogpost at the door-like cut in the rocks called Rae’s Falls, at the end of Anderson’s Barnston Lake. Today, this is McLellan Lake, and it is…

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James Anderson’s Journey part 3

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson January 23, 2021 "Journeys", Hudson's Bay Company
James Anderson’s Journey part 3

In this post we are following James Anderson as he and his party paddled across Great Slave Lake, heading north from Fort Resolution to McLeod Bay. At this point he…

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Rivière des Roches to Great Slave Lake

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson January 12, 2019 Brigade Trails, Explorations
Rivière des Roches to Great Slave Lake

The river that flowed north from Athabasca Lake was not the Mackenzie, but the Rivière des Roches, which led boats into the Slave. Somewhere north of Athabasca Lake was the…

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The Liard River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson December 8, 2018 Brigade Trails, Explorations
The Liard River

The Liard River once played a significant role in the fur trade of the North: it was the river that led from Fort Simpson, on the Mackenzie River north of…

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