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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James Anderson’s Journey part 2

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 31, 2020 "Journeys", Hudson's Bay Company
James Anderson’s Journey part 2

So, in our last post in this series (which we are just beginning) I left Chief Trader James Anderson A, making his way up the Mackenzie River from Fort Simpson…

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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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Two Canoes: the Athabasca River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson March 25, 2017 "Two Canoes", "York Factory Express"
Two Canoes: the Athabasca River

In 1823, John Work and Peter Skene Ogden traveled west to the Columbia District by the Athabasca River and Fort Assiniboine. Thus far, they are not paddling (or in this…

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Two canoes: to Fort Chipewyan

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson February 25, 2017 "Two Canoes", Fur Trade History
Two canoes: to Fort Chipewyan

So, Governor George Simpson and Chief Trader Archibald McDonald have reached the banks of the Clearwater River, which will lead them westward toward the Athabasca River. They will travel down…

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