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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Two Canoes to Ile-a-la-Crosse

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson September 17, 2016 "Two Canoes", Fur Trade History
Two Canoes to Ile-a-la-Crosse

This is the sixth article in this series: two canoe journeys on the Upper Churchill River, on their way to Ile-a-la-Crosse and beyond. Both groups of canoes are on their…

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The 1843 Brigade Trail, Loon Lake to Green Lake

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson March 27, 2016 "The Brigades", Brigade Trails
The 1843 Brigade Trail, Loon Lake to Green Lake

From Loon Lake, in what is now the province of British Columbia, the men of the incoming New Caledonia brigade rode northwest, crossing the range of hills that lay between…

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The 1843 brigade trail, Copper Creek to Loon Lake

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 20, 2015 "The Brigades", Brigade Trails
The 1843 brigade trail, Copper Creek to Loon Lake

This blogpost has been rewritten, with lots of new information. I have learned much more about the trail since I wrote this the first time. In November 1842, Alexander Caulfield…

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Fort Alexandria to Drowned Horse Lake

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 29, 2014 Brigade Trail Journals, The OId Brigade Trail
Fort Alexandria to Drowned Horse Lake

In this post, part of a series beginning here: https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/brigade-one/ I am continuing to tell the story of two outgoing brigades on their journey from Fort St. James to Fort…

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The HBC Brigades, and Requirements for the Brigade Trails

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 31, 2014 Brigade Trails, Explorations
The HBC Brigades, and Requirements for the Brigade Trails

In 1846 and 1847, Alexander Caulfield Anderson explored four routes across the mountains that separated the HBC fort at Kamloops, from Fort Langley on the lower Fraser River. In 1848 and…

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