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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Nancy Marguerite Anderson

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson April 6, 2025 "Journeys", "The Brigades", "York Factory Express"
Nancy Marguerite Anderson

I am Nancy Marguerite Anderson; an accidental historian writing the stories of the HBC men who worked west of the Rocky Mountains before 1858 — so many good stories! The…

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Duelling Historians

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson April 21, 2024 "The Brigades", HBC Transportation Systems
Duelling Historians

This post is a continuation of the series I began a while ago: Fort St. James, as taken from Jamie Morton’s manuscript, “A Century of Fur Trade on Stuart Lake,”…

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Voyageur Traditions

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 17, 2023 "York Factory Express", HBC Transportation Systems
Voyageur Traditions

In spring of every year between 1826 and 1854, the outgoing York Factory Express men arrived at Edmonton House. They left Fort Vancouver, their Pacific coast headquarters on the Columbia…

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Paul Kane goes Home

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson April 29, 2023 "York Factory Express", HBC Transportation Systems
Paul Kane goes Home

So, in a continuation of this series, in Fall 1847, the artist Paul Kane has crossed the Rocky Mountains and made his way to the little post of Jasper’s House,…

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The Story of a Ship

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 12, 2022 "Journeys", Deaths and Murders
The Story of a Ship

As you already know from the hints I have dropped, something DID happen in the frozen wastes of Adelaide Peninsula when James Anderson and his crew of men were there.…

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