The Champlain Society is pleased to present a preview of its November 2021 Findings/Trouvailles.
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Fame Delayed: The Disappearance and Reappearance of Henry Kelsey’s Papers
By Arthur J. Ray, OC FRSC
Henry Kelsey of the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) is undoubtedly the most famous fur trader of the early contact era of western Canada. He is best remembered for having been the first European to visit the grassland-parkland region of central Saskatchewan, the homeland of the plains Assiniboine and Cree. Yet, two centuries passed