wattap etymology?

[Leanne Riding]

That's definitely Alexander Henry, the elder, in both cases... 
confusingly he outlived the younger Henry. My understanding is that the 
journal of the elder was often used as a source of early textual 
evidence regarding western Canadian history, because he was near the 
front of a westward push by fur companies in the 1700s.

Ross Clark (ARTS DALSL) wrote:

>That might explain it. CDC's entry actually says:
>
>1761 (1901) Henry (Elder) Travels, 14: The small roots of the
>spruce-tree afford the wattap, with which the bark is sewed [for
>acanoe]. 
>
>I find a library reference to an Alexander Henry 1739-1824, who is the
>author of Travels & adventures in Canada and the Indian Territories
>between the years 1760 and 1776. Don't know original publication date,
>but there was a new edition in 1901, which accounts for the second date
>above. Perhaps OED took the date of the first publication (1809?) as its
>point of reference, whereas CDC seems to have based theirs on the date
>of the events being narrated (perhaps a journal entry).
>
>Ross Clark
>  
>

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