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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Fort Durham Dustup

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson February 26, 2022 "Headquarters", Fur Trade History
Fort Durham Dustup

  What stories the HBC men had to tell of Fort Durham dustups, or conflicts with the First Nations people that surrounded it! It seems that every HBC man who…

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Fort Durham rises

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson January 15, 2022 "Headquarters", Hudson's Bay Company
Fort Durham rises

And so, in this blogpost, the HBC men under Chief Factor James Douglas have finally found a good location for Fort Durham, which would become the northernmost HBC post on…

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James Anderson on the Back River 1

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 5, 2021 "Journeys", Explorations
James Anderson on the Back River 1

So James Anderson and James Green Stewart and their men have now reached the headwaters of the Great Fish River, and will begin their journey north to the Arctic Ocean.…

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The Back River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson May 8, 2021 "Journeys", Hudson's Bay Company
The Back River

In this blogpost I am continuing the story of the journey that James Anderson and James Green Stewart made to the Arctic Ocean in summer 1855. James Anderson was Chief…

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James Anderson’s Journey part 3

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson January 23, 2021 "Journeys", Hudson's Bay Company
James Anderson’s Journey part 3

In this post we are following James Anderson as he and his party paddled across Great Slave Lake, heading north from Fort Resolution to McLeod Bay. At this point he…

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