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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A Winter Encampment

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson February 15, 2019 "Journeys", "York Factory Express"
A Winter Encampment

So let’s continue this young clerk’s journey by dogsled, from the banks of the Pennygataway River where we have left him. He begins his story again, with instructions on how…

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Dogsled Journey to Norway House

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 24, 2018 "Journeys", "York Factory Express"
Dogsled Journey to Norway House

Well, I am working on so many projects at the same time that I am getting lost in my office, and so it is time to tell you a funny…

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Two Canoe Journeys

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson April 23, 2016 "Two Canoes", HBC Transportation Systems
Two Canoe Journeys

This is the beginning of a new series, which covers two separate canoe journeys made from York Factory, by different routes to the West side of the Rocky Mountains. The…

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John Work’s Journey to the Columbia District, 1823

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 25, 2015 "Two Canoes", "York Factory Express"
John Work’s Journey to the Columbia District, 1823

Three years before the York Factory Express existed, John Work travelled over much of their route, on his way from York Factory to Spokane House, on the Spokane River. He…

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The Historic Hayes River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 4, 2015 "York Factory Express", Hudson's Bay Company
The Historic Hayes River

Once they left York Factory, built where the Hayes River flowed into Hudson Bay, the York Factory Express men followed up the “York Factory River” towards home. (The York Factory…

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