Talk:Marie-Anne Gaboury

A fact from Marie-Anne Gaboury appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 14 April 2005. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Marie-Anne Gaboury was the first woman of European descent to travel to and settle in the Canadian west?

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Competing claim

Did Isobel Gunn (as "John Fubbister") no go far enough west to be considered for the title of "first woman into the Canadian west"? http://www.hbc.com/hbcheritage/history/people/women/isobelgunn.asp -- user:zanimum

It's and interesting story, and presumably explains why at least one of account of Gaboury uses weasel terms like "first married woman". A couple of points. First, there were lots of women in the west, just none of European descent. But you knew that. Also as I point out, Gaboury settled there. Finally, she did travel further west, to modern Saskatchewan and Alberta, and this is the basis for her claim. There could possibly have been other European women in the red river area. Why not start an article? Fawcett5 14:16, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)