Hostname: page-component-745bb68f8f-mzp66 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-01-10T04:52:20.795Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Willard Wentzel's account of the Mackenzie River

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

Beau Riffenburgh ,
Clive Holland  and
Richard Davis
Beau Riffenburgh
Affiliation:
Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1ER
Clive Holland
Affiliation:
3 Lilac End, Haslingfield, Cambridge CB3 7LG
Richard Davis
Affiliation:
Calgary Institute for the Humanities, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Following his return from participating in John Franklin's first overland expedition (1819–1822), Willard Wentzel, a clerk for the North West Company, produced a map of the Mackenzie River and a brief account of its geography, native peoples, and history and significance as it related to the North West Company. This map and the account, which is one of the few early descriptions of the Mackenzie River area, are held in the Royal Commonwealth Society Papers at the University of Cambridge. They have not previously been published.

Type
Articles
Information
Polar Record , Volume 30 , Issue 173 , April 1994 , pp. 97 - 104
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Cook, A., and Holland, C.. 1978. The exploration of northern Canada: 500 to 1920, a chronology. Toronto: Arctic History Press.Google Scholar
Franklin, J. 1820a. Letter to W.F. Wentzel, 20 June 1820. Scott Polar Research Institute MS 248/276: 149–151.Google Scholar
Franklin, J. 1820b. Letter to Edward Smith, 24 November 1820. Scott Polar Research Institute MS248/276: 183–184.Google Scholar
Franklin, J. 1821. Letterto George Simpson, 7 April 1821. Scott Polar Research Institute MS 248/276:190–191.Google Scholar
Franklin, J. 1822. Letter to W.F. Wentzel. Scott Polar Research Institute MS 248/279.Google Scholar
Franklin, J. 1823. Narrative of a journey to the shores of the Polar Sea in the years 1819, 20, 21, and 22. London: John Murray.Google Scholar
Holland, C. 1988. John Franklin and thefurtrade, 1819–1822. In: Davis, R.C. (editor). Rupert's Land: a cultural tapestry. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.Google Scholar
Houston, C.S. (editor). 1974. To the Arctic by canoe 1819–1821: the journal of Robert Hood, midshipman with Franklin. Montreal and London: McGill-Queen's University Press.Google Scholar
Houston, C.S. (editor). 1984. Arctic ordeal: the journal of John Richardson, surgeon-naturalist with Franklin 1820–1822. Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Masson, L.F.R. (editor). 1960. Les bourgeois de la Compagnie du Nord-Ouest: récits de voyages, lettres et rapports inédits relatifs au nord-ouest canadien. 2 vols. New York: Antiquarian Press (First published 1889–1890, Quebec: A. Cote).Google Scholar
Neatby, L.H. 1958. In quest of the North West Passage. London: Constable and Company.Google Scholar
Partners of the North West Company. 1821. Letter to John Franklin, February 1821. Scott Polar Research Institute MS 248/276: 192–194.Google Scholar
Rich, E.E. (editor). 1938. Journal of occurrences in the Athabasca Department by George Simpson, 1820 and 1821, and report. Toronto: The Champlain Society for the Hudson's Bay Record Society.Google Scholar
Wentzel, W.F. 1822. Notice regarding the map of Mackenzie's River by Mr W.F. Wentzel, of the North West Fur Company. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society 4: 562–563.Google Scholar
Wentzel, W.F. 1823. Notice of the attempts to reach the sea by Mackenzie's River, since the expedition of Sir Alexander Mackenzie. The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal 8 (15): 77–81.Google Scholar