Nancy Marguerite Anderson
Writer of Hudson's Bay Company history west of the Rocky Mountains. Learn more about my books at nancymargueriteanderson.com/nancy-marguerite-an… I live in beautiful #Victoria, #BC
- THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS Whaleteah, the chief of the Alexandria home guard, got along well with the chief trader in charge of the HBC post, and appears in the post journals of the time. #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades
- THREE JOURNEYS NORTH TO THE ARCTIC SEA: Two different groups of canoes travelled north from Cumberland House to the Churchill River and beyond. One travelled to Fort Chipewyan and the Peace, the other to the Rocky Mountains via Athabasca River. #Journeys #ThreeJourneysNorth
- THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS From the beautiful Nicola Valley, the HBC men of the Brigades made their way across Nicola River and travelled over the hills to the old post at #Kamloops. #TheHBCBrigades #Journeys
- THREE JOURNEYS NORTH TO THE ARCTIC SEA: Here is the story of two canoe journeys to the north, as both arrive at Cumberland House, the old post on Cumberland Lake. To reach this place, they must traverse a few muddy lakes. #Journeys #ThreeJourneysNorth
- THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849 As they came west from York Factory in the late summer, the skies darkened and the men could see the Northern Lights flickering above them. #Journeys #YorkFactoryExpress
- THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS In 1847, Anderson and his men rode across the beautiful Nicola Valley, on their way home to #Kamloops from the lower Fraser River post of #FortLangley. #TheHBCBrigades #Journeys
- THREE JOURNEYS NORTH TO THE ARCTIC SEA: Cumberland House was on the junction of two major rivers--the #Saskatchewan, that led the HBC men to the west, and the Sturgeon-Weir, that led them to the north. #Journeys #ThreeJourneysNorth
- THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849 The men of the incoming York Factory Express made their way up the #Saskatchewan River from Lake #Winnipeg to Cumberland House, at the junction of the Sturgeon-Weir. #YorkFactoryExpress #Journeys
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- THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS In 1848, clerk Henry Newsham Peers kept the records of the nearly impossible HBC Brigade journey up the Fraser River to the post at #Kamloops. They made it, but lost many horses. #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades
