Portraits of Interest - Sketches

Portrait sketches of key figures in the Northwest Resistance. Subjects include Mrs. T. Charles Watson, Major T.C. Watson, Lt.-Col. the Hon. W.N. Kennedy, Corporal Lethbridge, Col.-Sergt. Cooper, and Capt. Herbert Swinford. Caption of sketches: "(1) Mrs. T. Charles Watson, who has commenced a series of dramatic readings in aid of local patriotic funds; (2) Major T.C. Watson, (late of H.M. service), commanding the troops raised at Yorkton, Assiniboia; (3) Lt.-Col. the Hon. W.N. Kennedy, of the 90th Batt. Rifles, who died in England, on his way home from Egypt; (4) Corporal Lethbridge, of the 90th Batt. (late of the Dufferin Rifles, Brantford) seriously wounded at Fish Creek; (5) Col.-Sergt. Cooper, of B Company, Q.O.R., wounded in the fight on Poundmaker's Reserve; (6)Capt. Herbert Swinford, Quartermaster of the 90 Batt., supply officer at Fort Qu'Appelle." Taken from The Canadian Pictorial & Illustrated War News, 1885.