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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Voyageur Traditions

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 17, 2023 "York Factory Express", HBC Transportation Systems
Voyageur Traditions

In spring of every year between 1826 and 1854, the outgoing York Factory Express men arrived at Edmonton House. They left Fort Vancouver, their Pacific coast headquarters on the Columbia…

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Paul Kane goes Home

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson April 29, 2023 "York Factory Express", HBC Transportation Systems
Paul Kane goes Home

So, in a continuation of this series, in Fall 1847, the artist Paul Kane has crossed the Rocky Mountains and made his way to the little post of Jasper’s House,…

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John Tod and me

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 1, 2022 London Ship
John Tod and me

No, I am not running off with John Tod of Kamloops: I am just telling you that there will be no blogpost this day, partly because I am so exhausted…

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Hayes River Posts

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson April 16, 2022 "York Factory Express", Fur Trade History
Hayes River Posts

In 1826, when the first York Factory Express men descended the Hayes River from Norway House to York Factory, they passed through only one Hayes River post: Oxford House. That…

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Book Reviews

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson November 27, 2021 "York Factory Express", Writing
Book Reviews

Writers always look forward to their first book reviews, and fear them at the same time. But so far, I am getting good reviews that not everyone will be able…

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