Show first white woman in west arrived in 1806 the first white hite woman in the west of whom there Is any record came out from the orkney islands in 1800 in a flud hudson sons a bay comp company anys s ship di disguised guised as a young man she came out to join her sweetheart in the journal of alexander henry it Is re corded without menti n of her name that on december 29 1807 she gave birth to a child at his trading post at the mouth of the pembina river of the life of the child born tl ti at day lay the first ch id born in the west of white parent noth ng is known but that his moti er took tool him with her when she returned to scotland the summer after his birth mane marie lag fagi modere mod ere who became the grand moth er of louis kiel riel ni as the second white bomin to come to the IN est of whom there is any record she arrived in 1807 it was 1812 before there were any other white women in the west in that year the second party of sel set kirk settlers arrived ai rived at york facton they included 18 women montrea gerald |