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Last Name Wentzel

Given Name Willard Ferdinand

alt. Names W. F. W. ; Willard Wentzel ;

Marriage Agathe Letendre Montagnaise (* 1790 c.)

Children Helene Amalie Wensell (*1808) ? ;

Year born 1780 c.

Year died 1832

Place of death

Father's occupation Norwegian merchant in Montreal Adam Wentzel ?

Relatives Endymia Grout (1761-1780 after) mother ;

Education

Country of Activity Canada

Worked for North West Company in 1799 ; in July 1820, the British Naval Exploring Expedition, leader John Franklin appointed Wentzel as an assistant ;

Patronage

Collaborators

Techniques cartographical drawing ;

Sample(s)

Archival sources https://archivalcollections.library.mcgill.ca/index.php/wentzel-willard-ferdinand-approximately-1780-1832 ; ...

Published sources Riffenburgh, Beau, Holland, Clive & Richard Davis: : Willard Wentzel's account of the Mackenzie River, in: Polar Record, 30, (173), 1994: 97-104 ; Jacobs Claydon, Annaliese: Arctic Circles and Imperial Knowledge. The Franklin Family, Indigenous Intermediaries, and the Politics of Truth (London ; New York City, NY: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024) ;

other Further Places of Activity: Arctic coasts.

Further archival sources: https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/K4B6-6DF/willard-ferdinand-wentzel-1780-1832

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