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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1858 Brigade Trails

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 13, 2020 "The HBC Brigades", Hudson's Bay Company
1858 Brigade Trails

  It is interesting to see how the packers who followed the HBC trails into the upper district travelled up and down what they called “the Old Brigade Trail” to…

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The Road Crew

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson April 29, 2017 "The HBC Brigades", Brigade Trails
The Road Crew

I sometimes work with a researcher who does not listen, and it becomes very difficult to have to explain, once again, that the information he/she is presenting me is not…

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The Old Brigade Trail

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson December 27, 2013 "The HBC Brigades", The OId Brigade Trail
The Old Brigade Trail

In my previous post titled “HBC Transportation Systems: the London Ships,” I mentioned that the outgoing brigades from Fort St. James, Stuart’s Lake, met the incoming London Ships every summer…

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