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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Paul Kane leaves Edmonton House

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 28, 2020 "York Factory Express", Hudson's Bay Company
Paul Kane leaves Edmonton House

“We remained at Edmonton till the morning of the 6th [October],” Paul Kane wrote, “preparing for the arduous journey which now lay before us.” Paul Kane was travelling west with…

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Paul Kane reaches Edmonton

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 24, 2020 "York Factory Express", HBC Transportation Systems
Paul Kane reaches Edmonton

In our continuing York Factory Express journal, we are following Paul Kane across the continent, from Norway House to the Columbia District. At the moment he is just arriving at…

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Fort Pitt

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 18, 2020 "York Factory Express", Hudson's Bay Company
Fort Pitt

  Fort Pitt was a provisioning post, constructed in 1829-31, 217 miles downriver from Edmonton House. Before this post was built, the men of the outgoing Saskatchewan Brigades (which included…

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More on the York Factory River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson April 11, 2020 "York Factory Express", Metis in the West
More on the York Factory River

As we already know, Dr. John Birkbeck Nevins went up the York Factory River (the lower Hayes) with a gentleman who was heading to his Saskatchewan River post. Here is…

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Pemmican

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson April 4, 2020 "York Factory Express", Metis in the West
Pemmican

Pemmican was not eaten west of the Rocky Mountains, and it was not part of our experience. As a matter of fact, when the men of the York Factory Express,…

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