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Nancy Marguerite Anderson @margueritehbc.bsky.social · 1h

I love this!

Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 1h

Busting a gut listening to this, it’s true, we Gen X were feral 😆 we were unsupervised, but knew to listen to our parents and be respectful, but do not think we are weak 😉

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Oh and the floor thing, I try to get some flow going, like on a swing 🤭

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Nancy Marguerite Anderson @margueritehbc.bsky.social · 1h

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
From Rhododendron Flats, the HBC men of Anderson's exploring party climbed the hill and found a small pond with a tree that was then named "Anderson's Tree," in a ceremony in honor of their leader. #TheHBCBrigades

Anderson's Tree

In three of his maps, Alexander Caulfield Anderson has drawn Anderson's Tree, southeast of the lake he named Council's Punch Bowl. It is a Maypole Tree.

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Nancy Marguerite Anderson @margueritehbc.bsky.social · 3h

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
There were many trading posts built up and down the banks of North #Saskatchewan River, from Fort Montagne d'Aigle in the Eagle Hills, to Rocky Mountain House at the river's north west end. #YorkFactoryExpress

North Saskatchewan Posts

The North Saskatchewan river posts moved up and down the river many times over the years. Some had five or six different locations, with identical names.

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Nancy Marguerite Anderson @margueritehbc.bsky.social · 5h

HBC BRIGADES, JOURNAL OF AN EXPEDITION, 1847:
"Off at 2.50 am. 2 1/2 Miles to river Tse-wammia, which we crossed at its embouchure with canoes. After breakfast at 11 am, reached Squa-zoum, having encamped, crossed a stream called Tummuhl, near which is a village containing 120... #TheHBCBrigades

Shallow lake with brush growing along its shoreline, a line of meadow backed by trees that obscure the long valley behind.

Nancy Marguerite Anderson @margueritehbc.bsky.social · 8h

HBC BRIGADES, JOURNAL OF AN EXPEDITION, 1847:
"We are encamped near a populous village, one & all, I believe, fairly wearied out. A days march among the arid hills of Fraser's River, with the thermometer between 80 & 90 in the shade, is a trying matter, however willing the spirit. #TheHBCBrigades

A heavy growth of trees on a rock bluff above a waterway.

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Nancy Marguerite Anderson @margueritehbc.bsky.social · 11h

HBC BRIGADES, JOURNAL OF AN EXPEDITION, 1847:
"We have fallen in with a good many Indians today who receive us with clamorous vociferations of welcome, expressed in a peculiar and amusing style of oratory. We are now encamped near a populous village, one & all, I believe, thoroughly #TheHBCBrigades

Typical encampment of HBC Brigades, with canvas tents for the gentlemen and cook fires for all. To the left men talk under a canvas fly. In the background the palisades of replica Fort Langley.

Nancy Marguerite Anderson @margueritehbc.bsky.social · 1d

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
In 1846, when he was making his way home to #Kamloops from #FortLangley, Anderson and his party of men walked through a grove of California Rhododendrons -- in modern-day Manning Park. #TheHBCBrigades

Rhododendron Flats

The northernmost grove of California Rhododendron grows at Rhododendron Flats, just inside the west gate of Manning Park, British Columbia.

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Nancy Marguerite Anderson @margueritehbc.bsky.social · 1d

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
The provisioning post of Fort Pitt was established on the North #Saskatchewan River in the early 1830s, and for the first winter, at least, the HBC men lived in tents. #YorkFactoryExpress

Fort Pitt

The provisioning post of Fort Pitt was built in 1829-31, 217 miles downriver from Edmonton House. Here the HBC men traded for bison meat.

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Nancy Marguerite Anderson @margueritehbc.bsky.social · 1d

HBC BRIGADES, JOURNAL OF AN EXPEDITION, 1847:
"Admitting, however, the possibility of passing the points in question, another serious impediment would exist throughout the greater part of the distance--the roughness, namely, of the pathway studded with pebbles and sharp projecting... #TheHBCBrigades

Men on horseback leading packhorses along a hard trail with rocky hills and snow topped mountains in the background.

Nancy Marguerite Anderson @margueritehbc.bsky.social · 1d

HBC BRIGADES, JOURNAL OF AN EXPEDITION, 1847:
"My personal opinion, after as accurate a scrutiny into the matter as it was in my power to afford, is that the obstacles in question are too serious to be overcome under ordinary circumstances. Admitting, however, the possibility of... #TheHBCBrigades

A rocky shoreline with a heavy growth of trees growing on the banks of the river or lake.

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Nancy Marguerite Anderson @margueritehbc.bsky.social · 1d

HBC BRIGADES, JOURNAL OF AN EXPEDITION, 1847:
"These rocky passages extend for a long distance, nor did all my enquires of Pahallak or others satisfy me that any means of obviating the difficulty exist; and my personal opinion after as accurate a scrutiny into the matter, as it... #TheHBCBrigades

Bulwarks of wood buried in a sandy and grassy beach, the hills beyond disappearing into the mist as they plunge into the waterway.

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Nancy Marguerite Anderson @margueritehbc.bsky.social · 2d

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
On their way home to #Kamloops, Anderson's small party made their way up the Nicolum River, passing the lakes and streams now buried by the massive Hope Slide of January, 1965. #TheHBCBrigades

Nicolum River & Hope Slide

In 1846,A.C. Anderson explored west of Fort Hope, looking for a new brigade route. The massive Hope Slide later buried his route.

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Nancy Marguerite Anderson @margueritehbc.bsky.social · 2d

Hey, its the prairies. I am always happy when you get snow and we do not. Do you remember the year that Victoria got buried in snow and the whole of Canada laughed at us????

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Nancy Marguerite Anderson @margueritehbc.bsky.social · 2d

Regina and Saskatoon are getting snow according to Weather Canada.

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Nancy Marguerite Anderson @margueritehbc.bsky.social · 2d

Saskatchewan!

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Nancy Marguerite Anderson @margueritehbc.bsky.social · 2d

Where are you?

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Nancy Marguerite Anderson @margueritehbc.bsky.social · 2d

Certainly hasn't made my typos any less obvious though

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Nancy Marguerite Anderson @margueritehbc.bsky.social · 2d

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
From Carlton House on the North #Saskatchewan River, the incoming York Factory Express men made their way upriver to the new provisioning post, Fort Pitt, halfway to #Edmonton House. #YorkFactoryExpress

York Factory Express: Carlton House to Fort Pitt

Between Carlton House and Fort Pitt, the gentlemen took advantage of the opportunity to hunt for bison on the prairies that surrounded them..

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Nancy Marguerite Anderson @margueritehbc.bsky.social · 2d

HBC BRIGADES, JOURNAL OF AN EXPEDITION, 1847:
"I decidedly think them quite impracticable for a loaded brigade, or loaded horses, however limited in number, or indeed for anything beyond possibly a light horse or two. These rocky passages extend for a long distance, nor did all... #TheHBCBrigades

A rocky shoreline with trees growing thickly on the heights, ensuring difficult passage through this piece of territory.

Nancy Marguerite Anderson @margueritehbc.bsky.social · 2d

I do the same thing with blogposts, I think. I've done it for more than twenty years. It certainly has made it easier to just sit down and wrote.

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Nancy Marguerite Anderson @margueritehbc.bsky.social · 2d

Yes. Or at least, the way it should be.

Ashley Kuckelman @ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social · 2d

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Nancy Marguerite Anderson @margueritehbc.bsky.social · 2d

HBC BRIGADES, JOURNAL OF AN EXPEDITION, 1847:
"Although I do not condemn these passages as impassable with horses, in the strict acceptation of that term, I decidedly think them quite impracticable for a loaded brigade, or loaded horses, however limited in number, or indeed, for... #TheHBCBrigades

Men on horseback leading packhorses on a rocky trail with heavily treed hills and snow topped mountains in the distance.

Nancy Marguerite Anderson @margueritehbc.bsky.social · 2d

HBC BRIGADES, JOURNAL OF AN EXPEDITION, 1847:
"In the vicinity of the village called Skaoose is a succession of rocky hills some of which are avoidabe by making a circuit, while others appear to offer no such alternative. And though I do not condemn these passages as impassable... #TheHBCBrigades

A whirlpool filled river flows past rock-bound and tree lined river banks from the high hills in the distance.

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Nancy Marguerite Anderson @margueritehbc.bsky.social · 2d

You probably don't know this, but my great grandfather was one of the men credited with seeing the first sasquatch! However, it was in BC and not on the prairies....

Nancy Marguerite Anderson @margueritehbc.bsky.social · 3d

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
Upriver from #FortLangley was a large lake on which the Sto:lo people made their homes, living in houses on stilts to protect themselves from mosquitoes. The Lake no longer exists, unfortunately.... #TheHBCBrigades

"Smess," or Sumas Prairie

Anderson's 1867 map of British Columbia shows the Natives' and HBC traders' Smess, once a massive lake but now converted into farmland.

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