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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Paul Kane and the Brigades

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 16, 2022 "The Brigades", "York Factory Express"
Paul Kane and the Brigades

In 1848, the artist, Paul Kane, left Fort Vancouver with the New Caledonia Brigades, traveling with them as far as Fort Colvile. This is the first leg of his journey…

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Up the Columbia River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson July 31, 2021 "York Factory Express", Hudson's Bay Company
Up the Columbia River

In August 1849, clerk Thomas Lowe journeyed up the Columbia River as far as Fort Nez Percés, following the same river route that the York Factory Express had travelled in…

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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…

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“Eatables”

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson April 8, 2017 "York Factory Express", Hudson's Bay Company
“Eatables”

As George Traill Allan made his way down the Jasper Valley, at the head of the outgoing York Factory Express party, he wrote these words in his journal: About 8…

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Grand Coulee

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson December 31, 2016 "The Brigades", "York Factory Express"
Grand Coulee

In 1848 Thomas Lowe’s York Factory Express went out by the Grand Coulee. No other express had taken that out of the way route, as far as I am aware,…

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