This trip marked the first time a white man had entered present-
day Saskatchewan. Kelsey's journal of the trip, which opens with
some curious, rhyming doggerel, describes buffalo, grizzly bears
and a Native group - possibly the Sioux or Gros Ventres. The
company's hold on the bay was tenuous, and Kelsey twice
negotiated surrender of York to Pierre Le Moyne d' IBERVILLE
(1694 and 1697). His reward for loyal service was his
appointment as chief trader at Albany (1705) and governor of all
the bay posts (1717). The Kelsey Papers, a single, paperbound
volume dated 1693, were not known to historians before 1926, and
mysteries still surround them. Author JAMES MARSH