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 on the Back River 1

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 5, 2021 "Journeys", Explorations
James Anderson on the Back River 1

So James Anderson and James Green Stewart and their men have now reached the headwaters of the Great Fish River, and will begin their journey north to the Arctic Ocean.…

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Building a York Boat

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson April 18, 2020 "Journeys", "York Factory Express"
Building a York Boat

As I am reading through the Fort Selkirk post journals, I realized the HBC men at that post are building a York Boat. From scratch! Now, this is interesting! So…

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Fort Yukon

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson October 12, 2019 "Journeys", Hudson's Bay Company
Fort Yukon

In 1847, HBC trader Alexander Hunter Murray built Fort Yukon on the Yukon River, just inside the boundaries of what was then Russian Territory, on the instructions of Chief Factor…

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Robert Campbell’s Yukon River

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson March 9, 2019 "Journeys", Explorations
Robert Campbell’s Yukon River

Before we join Robert Campbell in his journey down the Yukon River, we will need to digress from Campbell’s explorations, and speak of the founding of Fort Yukon. This, from…

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Liard River to Pelly Banks

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson January 26, 2019 Explorations, Fur Trade History
Liard River to Pelly Banks

My last blogpost covered the HBC attempt to build a post on the lower Stikine River. They failed, and Peter Skene Ogden returned to Fort Simpson, on the Nass River,…

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