Show first white woman in west arrived in 1806 the first vt nolte alte woman la in the hie west of whom hom there Is 3 any record came out from the orkney islands in ISM in a hudsons Hud flud sons ions bay companas comp anys ship disguised as a young man she canie came out to join tier her sweetheart in the journal of alexander henry it Is recorded without mention 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 that day the first child born in the west of white parents nothing Is known but that hla his mother took him with her when she returned to scotland the summer after tits his birth marle lagl mod lotre who became the grandmother of louls louis riel was the second white woman to come to the west of whom t there h 41 re la 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 kirk settlers arrived at york facto they included IS 18 women montrea SIon trea herald |