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!

Impossible Journey

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson May 29, 2021 "The HBC Brigades", "York Factory Express"

When I was doing research some time ago for another book (“The HBC Brigades”), I ran across one man who made an impossible journey through New Caledonia, heading north to…

Joe Burke

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson April 24, 2021 "York Factory Express", HBC Transportation Systems

In his outgoing York Factory Express journal of 1847, Thomas Lowe lists the passengers who are travelling up the Columbia River with him. A mysterious “Joe Burke” was among…