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Kelsey on the Plains
© Rogers Communications Inc.
Source: National Archives of Canada/C-010089

Henry Kelsey sees buffalo on the western plains
© Hudson's Bay Company Archives, PAM, P-392
Photo courtesy of Hudson's Bay Company Archives.
Source: Hudson's Bay Company Archives, Provincial Archives of Manitoba

Man strapping on snowshoes
© Public Domain
Credit: National Archives of Canada/C-098974
Source: George Rutherford, Vancouver, B.C.

Kelsey was the first to deliver letters between settlements -- a task he completed with the help of a Native boy
© National Library of Canada
Source: National Library of Canada

Examples of beaver-fur hats
© Public Domain
Castorologi, Or, The History and Traditions of the Canadian Beaver: An Exhaustive Monograph…; Horace T. Martin. Montreal; London: W. Drysdale; E. Stanford, 1892.
Source: National Library of Canada

Buffalo rift hunting
© Public Domain
Credit: National Archives of Canada/C-000403
Source: National Archives of Canada

Kelsey travelled southwest with the help of the Native people and was the first European to see the Canadian Prairies
© National Library of Canada
Source: National Library of Canada

Henry Kelsey's journal, in verse
© Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
Reproduced with the permission of the Deputy Keeper of the Records, Public Records Office of Northern Ireland (http://proni.nics.gov.uk) D162/77A-D162/77C