Talk:Anthony Henday

Pierre Gaultier de Varennes sieur de la Verendrye, and this according to Wikipedia was actually the first white man to go as far west as the Rockies and not only western Canada butas far as Montana and Wyoming. Establishing fur trading posts in the 1730’s.

Sources for the Anthony Henday article
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 * Jane Ross (1994). Alberta, its people in history. ISBN 0-919879-57-8. Weigl Educational Publishers Ltd. 324, 10113-104 Street, Edmonton, Alberta, T5J 1A1, p.32


 * Grant MacEwan (1975, 1995). Fifty Mighty Men (Google eBook). Greystone Books. Vancouver, B.C. ISBN 1-55054-415-2, 971.2'092'2, pp. 73-79
 * http://books.google.ca/books?id=Jk632ZhvH28C


 * "Anthony Henday." Calgary & Southern Alberta. The Applied History Research Group. The University of Calgary. Copyright © 1997, The Applied History Research Group.
 * http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/calgary/henday.html

Textual problems of the Henday journals
Henday's original journals have been lost, apparently. There are four copies remaining all made by the same person, Andrew Graham, dating from 1755 to 1782. The four copies do not agree with each other. Barbara Belyea, in her book "A Year Inland: The Journal of a Hudson's Bay Company Wanderer", reproduces all four copies and then examines what make of those differences. And, she discusses what might have been Andrew Graham's agenda.


 * Gooch, Bryan N. S. From Routes to Rails. canlit.ca. Canadian Literature, 8 Dec. 2011. Web. 9 Aug. 2013.
 * http://canlit.ca/reviews/from_routes_to_rails

First European?
Many historical sources largely ignore the presence of the French in North America before 1759, when the British defeated the French at the Plains of Abraham. The early English explorers mention "French traders" and they mention the remnants of older forts sometimes deep within lands unexplored by the English. After France ceded much of North America to the British in the Treaty of Paris in 1763, much of what remained in North America was destroyed by the French. Forts and documents were destroyed and likely wiped from history.Landroo (talk) 16:57, 7 July 2019 (UTC)