Peel’s Prairie Provinces: University of Alberta Library, a Division of Learning Services

Peel 5

Kelsey, Henry (c.1670-c.1724) [info]; Doughty, Arthur George (Sir) (1860-1936) (introduction) [info]; Martin, Chester Bailey (1882-1958) (introduction) [info]. The Kelsey papers: La collection Kelsey. Ottawa: Public Archives of Canada and Public Record Office of North Ireland, 1929.

Physical description: lxxxiii, 128 p., facsim., fold. map.; 26.5 cm.

Language: English

Also published, with new introduction by John Warkentin, Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, University of Regina, 1994 (xlvii, 88p.); text of original Kelsey papers included in Henry T. Epp, editor; Three hundred prairie years: Henry Kelsey's "inland country of good report," Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, University of Regina, 1993 (xi, 238p.). Kelsey's journal was published in Peel 26, but it was only in 1926 that the original manuscript was found among the papers collected by Arthur Dobbs, donated to the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland by Maj. A.F. Dobbs. The first two papers cover his exploration, the third covers Native beliefs and superstitions, while the remaining eight deal with events on Hudson Bay. See also Peel 8.

Subject headings:

• Diaries
• Explorers
• Indians of North America--Religion