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 Grand River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 5, 2022 Fur Trade History, HBC Transportation Systems
The Grand River

The historic Ottawa River was often called le Grand River — the “Big River” — by the first voyageurs who travelled up and down its length. And it was a…

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Ottawa River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 23, 2022 Fur Trade History, HBC Transportation Systems
Ottawa River

The rapids-filled Ottawa River led the North West Company voyageurs, and the later HBC Lachine Brigades, northward from the Lake of the Two Mountains to the mouth of the Mattawa…

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Leaving Lachine

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson May 21, 2022 Fur Trade History, Hudson's Bay Company
Leaving Lachine

All of the North West Company men, and many of the HBC men, entered Rupertsland via the system of rivers that led from Lachine, on the St. Lawrence River, to…

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Wicked River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson September 5, 2020 "Journeys", HBC Transportation Systems
Wicked River

The Rivière Maligne, otherwise known as the Wicked River, earned its ferocious nick-name over the years.  The Maligne was, of course, the Sturgeon-Weir River that led the early free-traders, the…

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John Stuart’s Notes

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 8, 2020 Brigade Trails, Fur Trade History
John Stuart’s Notes

This is a lovely little document I discovered a few years ago, and want to look at it again. It was written in 1840 by John Stuart, and I suspect…

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