Henry, Alexander, the Younger

Nephew of preceding. Entered service of North West Company about 1792. His Journal , the original manuscript of which is in the Library of Parliament at Ottawa, and which was published in 1897, with introduction and elaborate notes by Elliott Coues, contains an account of his western travels and experiences, 1799 to 1814. Drowned near Fort George, at the mouth of the Columbia, May 22, 1814. Bib. : Works: New Light on the Early History of the Greater North-West ; The Manuscript Journals of Alexander Henry and David Thompson , ed. by Elliott Coues, New York, 1897. See also Burpee, Search for the Western Sea ; Bryce, Hudson's Bay Company .