Rebellion, 1885 - State of the Infantry Brigade / Camp Fort Pitt

This item describes the state of the infantry brigade stationed at Camp Fort Pitt on 2 July 1885. Categories include members absent with / without leave, hospital attendants and casualities. Item found within folder 1 of file Rebellion, 1885.

Historical note:

Founded in 1830, Fort Pitt was the major Hudson's Bay Company trading post between Forts Edmonton and Carlton (Saskatchewan), located at a large bend in the North Saskatchewan River just east of the modern Alberta-Saskatchewan border. It was one of 2 principal points for signing Treaty No 6 in 1876. On 14-15 April 1885, during the North West Rebellion, Chief Big Bear's Cree band besieged the fort. After a skirmish in which a policeman was killed, the natives permitted the fort's North West Mounted Police detachment to flee downriver and then took the civilian occupants prisoner and looted the post.