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 York Factory Express for Booksellers

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 15, 2020 "York Factory Express", HBC Transportation Systems
The York Factory Express for Booksellers

The annual York Factory Express journey to Hudson Bay, and its return as the Columbia Express, was unique to the Hudson’s Bay Company’s fur trade west of the Rocky Mountains…

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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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Joseph and Josephine Rondeau

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 25, 2018 Fur Trade History, Hudson's Bay Company
Joseph and Josephine Rondeau

I get asked a lot of questions, for the most part because people think I know everything about the Hudson’s Bay Company. I do not, although I have a lot…

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Two Canoes: To Trout Lake

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson September 23, 2017 "Two Canoes", Fur Trade History
Two Canoes: To Trout Lake

This, the nineteenth post of this series, is the continuation of Governor Simpson’s journey west to New Caledonia in 1828. The author of the journal is Archibald McDonald, who is…

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Leather Pass

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson September 9, 2017 "York Factory Express", Hudson's Bay Company
Leather Pass

As a fur trade descendant, I have always called the northern pass through the mountains “Leather Pass.” Today this is officially known as the Yellowhead, which comes from its original…

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