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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Snowshoeing

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 12, 2016 "Journeys", "York Factory Express"
Snowshoeing

The HBC’s “Rupertsland” was a land of winter, and for the HBC men snow-shoes were essential. At some point in their lives, every man who worked for the HBC (and…

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