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!

NANCY MARGUERITE ANDERSON
  • Home
  • THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS
    • “York Factory Express”
  • “The Brigades”
    • Brigade Trails
  • “Journeys”
    • London Ship
  • Contact Nancy
  • Blog
    • Alexander Caulfield Anderson
      • Anderson-Seton Family
      • A.C. Anderson’s Writing
    • Fur Trade History
      • Deaths and Murders
    • HBC Transportation Systems
    • Natives in the Fur Trade
      • Native plants & foods
    • James and Charlot Birnie of Cathlamet

Paul Kane on the Columbia

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 29, 2022 "York Factory Express", Hudson's Bay Company
Paul Kane on the Columbia

Here is the story of how the artist, Paul Kane, made his way up the Columbia River from Fort Colvile to Boat Encampment, traveling with the outgoing York Factory Express…

Read more

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…

Read more

Two Canoes: John Work comes down the Columbia River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson March 31, 2018 "Two Canoes", "York Factory Express"
Two Canoes: John Work comes down the Columbia River

So in the last John Work journal, he and Peter Skene Ogden had reached Boat Encampment, having come down the Big Hill from Athabasca Pass. In this bit of journal,…

Read more

York Factory Express: “Falling Down the Columbia”

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 26, 2016 "Two Canoes", "York Factory Express"
York Factory Express: “Falling Down the Columbia”

In this section of the York Factory Express journals, I am going to continue with John Work’s journal of 1823. Remember, please, that he was coming into the territory before…

Read more

Fort Colvile to Boat Encampment

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson April 20, 2014 "York Factory Express", Hudson's Bay Company
Fort Colvile to Boat Encampment

In his own York Factory Express journal, George Traill Allan, whose passage from Fort Nez Perces to Fort Colvile is covered in the last “chapter” of this series, wrote a…

Read more

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 190 other subscribers

Blog Categories

  • "Headquarters"
  • "Journeys"
  • "The Brigades"
  • "The Pathfinder: A.C. Anderson's Journeys in the West."
  • "Two Canoes"
  • "York Factory Express"
  • A Literary A. C. Anderson
  • A.C. Anderson’s Writing
  • Alexander Caulfield Anderson
  • Anderson-Seton Family
  • Brigade Trail Journals
  • Brigade Trails
  • Deaths and Murders
  • Explorations
  • Following A.C.Anderson around British Columbia
  • Fort Victoria stories
  • Fur Trade History
  • HBC Transportation Systems
  • Headquarters
  • Hudson's Bay Company
  • James and Charlot Birnie of Cathlamet
  • London Ship
  • Metis in the West
  • Native plants & foods
  • Natives in the Fur Trade
  • North West Company
  • Sasquatch Stories
  • Stuwix Stories
  • The OId Brigade Trail
  • Writing
  • York Factory Express

Recent Posts

  • French River March 18, 2023
  • Anderson at Lake Garry March 11, 2023
  • The HBC ship Cadboro March 4, 2023
  • Fort Victoria’s Missing Years February 25, 2023
  • Anderson at Fort Nisqually February 19, 2023
Copyright © 2023 NANCY MARGUERITE ANDERSON | Theme by: Theme Horse | Powered by: WordPress