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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/tri-university-history-graduate-program/events/str
 ange-tale-alexander-henry-con-artist-and-struggle
LOCATION:Laurier Centre for the Study of Canada 232 King Street North Water
 loo ON N2L 3C5 Canada
SUMMARY:The Strange Tale of Alexander Henry\, a Con Artist\, and the Strugg
 le\nfor the Northwest
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Mark Humphries\, Laurier History Department presents\, The 
 Strange\nTale of Alexander Henry\, a Con Artist\, and the Struggle for the
 \nNorthwest.\n\nFriday\, February 6. 3:00 pm\n\nLaurier Centre for the Stu
 dy of Canada\, 232 King St N\, Waterloo.\n\nAlexander Henry is famous as t
 he first English trader to venture into\nthe Northwest after the fall of N
 ew France in 1760 where he survived\nan attack at Michilimackinac\, helped
  found the North West Company\, and\nmapped the foothills of the Rockies. 
 His story was published as a\npopular memoir in 1809 and helped shape hist
 orians' views about the\nearly history of the Northwest and relations betw
 een Britain\, the\nUnited States\, and the Indigenous Peoples who lived th
 ere down to the\npresent. But...new discoveries show that Henry didn't wri
 te the book:\nit was fabricated by an English children's author and con ar
 tist named\nEdward Augustus Kendall who stole Henry's journals and made-up
  most of\nthe text. In sorting truth from fiction\, we see Kendall conscio
 usly\nconstructing a version of history that he hoped would resonate with
 \naudiences on the eve of the War of 1812 as tensions grew between\nBritai
 n and the United States over the future of Western North\nAmerica.\n\nLigh
 t refreshments will be offered. \n\nOrganized by the Wilfrid Laurier Histo
 ry Department Events Committee.
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