Note 117 — Chapter XVII

Franchère here makes a slip of the pen. The fort on the Willamette was in charge of William Henry, Alexander’s cousin. William was a son of Alexander Henry, the elder, being born in Montreal about 1783. Entering the North West Company’s service as clerk, he was stationed in Manitoba (1801-09). The next year, he was sent to command at Cumberland House, Athabasca, and thence removed to Columbia waters, where Thompson found him in 1812. He remained at his Willamette post until 1816, being then transferred to Slave Lake. After the North West Company was merged in the Hudson’s Bay (1821), Henry removed to Montreal, and became surveyor and engineer. About 1848 he went to live at Newmarket, Ontario, where he died in 1864. For his portrait, see Henry, Travels and Adventures (Bain, ed., Boston, 1901), preface. The location of his Willamette post has not definitely been determined. It was a short distance above Pudding River. See Henry-Thompson Journals, p. 815.—Ed.