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Aboriginal Constable
A photograph of an Aboriginal (Cree) man wearing a military style outfit and holding a rifle. He wears a gun belt with ammunition and a revolver on his right hip. The gun belt and revolver are probably George Mann Jr's property, and it is likely that he staged this photograph. A gun belt and revolver are artifacts held by a direct descendant of Mann Jr. Picture was possibly taken on Onion Lake or Saddle Lake reserve between 1900 and 1930. Mann was known to visit these areas well into the 1920s.
Aboriginal Family by Teepee
A photograph of a Metis? man with a Cree? woman and her child standing outside a teepee. Picture possibly taken by George Mann family who worked with Cree people in Onion Lake, Saddle Lake and Hobbema reserves between 1883 and 1916. Members of the family were known to continue to visit these areas well into the 1920s.
Aboriginal Family Outside Teepee
Aboriginal Group Photo
Aboriginal People at Ceremony
Anglican Church History
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Cree Camp on the Prairies
Cree Family Near Building
The Face Pullers: Ch. 3 images - Staff and Students of Onion Lake School
Students of Onion Lake School, with school in background. From the book The Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939 by Brock Silversides.
First Nation Onion Lake Pow Wow - Anglican Cemetery St. Barnabas Mission. - Grave marker of Elizabeth Beckett Matheson. - September 2001. - Slide.
First Nation Onion Lake Pow Wow - Anglican Cemetery St. Barnabas Mission. - Grave marker of John Richard Matheson. - September 2001. - Slide.
First Nation Onion Lake Pow Wow - Onion Lake Catholic Cemetery Sept. 2001. - Slide.
First Nation Onion Lake Pow Wow - Onion Lake Catholic Cemetery Sept. 2001. - Slides.
First Nation Onion Lake Pow Wow - Onion Lake Catholic Church Sept. 2001. - Slide.
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This church burned to the ground on 22 December 1998.First Nation Onion Lake Pow Wow - Onion Lake Grand Entry Pow Wow Sept. 2001. - Slide.
First Nation Onion Lake Pow Wow - Onion Lake Pow Wow Sept. 2001. - Slides.
First Nation Onion Lake Pow Wow - Onion Lake Reservation Seekaskootch Tribe Sept. 2001. - Slides.
First Nation Pow Wow -. Onion Lake Pow Wow Motion.- September 2001. - Slide.
George Mann Jr. Family on Picnic
Group Photo at Onion Lake Indian Agency
H. B. Co. Onion Lake
Indian Agency, Onion Lake
Indian Agency Onion Lake
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George Gwynne Mann was born in Darlington, Upper Canada on November 24, 1843. He spent most of his youth and young adult life in Bowmanville, Ontario where he tended his father's farm. In the mid to late 1860s he was a member of the 45th West Durham Battalion of Infantry and saw action in the Fenian raids.Jimmy Chief
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Jimmy Chief was a grandson of Chief Seekaskootch who signed Treaty Six at Fort Pitt on 15 September 1876 for the Onion Lake Band.Mabel Trottier and Mary Whitstone
[Meadow Lake Agency] Family Allowances - General
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Harold Nelson Woodsworth served as an Indian Agent at a number of agencies in Saskatchewan.Onion Lake Hospital
Onion Lake Mission
Onion Lake School
Rev. John Richard Matheson, seated
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Rev. John Richard Matheson was the husband of Dr. Elizabeth (Scott) Matheson. They were married in 1891, and she went with him to the Anglican mission on a reserve at Onion Lake, 200 miles Northwest of Saskatoon. As well as a missionary, he served as builder, rancher and trader to finance their work. After she completed medical studies at his urging, he built her a small mission hospital at Onion Lake, and the couple ran a mission school there.