Note 103 — Chapter XV

Alexander Henry—called “the younger” to distinguish him from his uncle of the same name—was for fifteen years a winterer of the North West Company, chiefly in the Saskatchewan country. From the time of his first venture (1799) until the day preceding his death by drowning in the mouth of the Columbia (May 22, 1814), he kept a journal, which is valuable as a source of information in regard to the Indians and traders of that period in the Western regions of Canada. See Henry-Thompson Journals (Coues, ed.).—Ed.