1885 / Fur Trade - 1970-1985. - Folder 2.
The 1885 North-West Campaign Diary of Lieutenant R. Lyndhurst Wadmore, Infantry School Corps
Aboriginal Faces of Saskatchewan
Almighty Voice
Battleford during the Rebellion of 1885
"Beatty, Reginald Bird-Diary & Correspondence"
Campaigning in the North West Territories
Circumstances Alter Photographs: Captain James Peters and the War of 1885
The Commission of 1885 to the North-West Territories
Copy of notes made by Hon. David Laird upon Qu'Appelle Treaty / 1874.
Copy of Official Reports (116H) from Major General Middleton, C.B. (Commanding North-West Field Force), Concerning the Engagements at Fish Creek, on the 24th April, 1885, Poundmaker's Camp (Near Cree's Reserve) 2nd May, 1885, Batoche, 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th May, 1885
"D" for Disturbance - Mrs. C. Wetton. - Newspaper articles. - January-February 1965.
Historical note:
Mrs. C. Wetton was a staff correspondent for the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix at North Battleford for 37 years.Delima F. Parenteau Interview
The Diaries of Louis Riel
Diary of Francis Dickens - Vernon LaChance. - May 1930.
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The Diary of Lieut. J.A.V. Preston, 1885
Diary of Lieut. R. S. Cassels, North-West Field Force
Typewritten transcription.
Diary of Lieutenant R. Lyndhurst Wadmore, Infantry School Corps, April 8, 1885 to July 20, 1885, N.W. Campaign.
Dr. A.B. Stewart Papers - Correspondence. - 1912-1925.
Historical note:
Dr. A.B. Stewart acted as coroner for the Royal North West Mounted Police and had a medical practice at Duck Lake, Saskatchewan in the late 1800s-early 1900s.Dr. A.B. Stewart Papers - Miscellaneous. - n.d..
Historical note:
Dr. A.B. Stewart acted as coroner for the Royal North West Mounted Police and had a medical practice at Rosthern, Saskatchewan in the late 1800s-early 1900s.Dr. A.B. Stewart Papers - Napoleon Venne Correspondence. - 1923-1924.
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Dr. Russell's Historical Notes
Dr. Russell's Water Transportation Prairie Provinces
A set of historical and bibliographical notes compiled by Dr. Russell on water transportation in what is today the prairie provinces. Includes information on the Northcote of 1885 Resistance fame. Also discusses the employment of Metis and First Nations men on riverboats, and gives prices at Gabriel's Crossing (Gabriel Dumont's ferry operation).
The Edwin Brooks Letters: Part I
Brooks moved from eastern Canada to what is now Indian Head in the spring of 1882; went into partnership in with George P. Murray to form Murray and Brooks, General Merchants, 1883. In 1885 he sat on the jury that found Louis Riel Guilty of High Treason. Letters contain some commentary on local Indigenous peoples, events and settler-Indigenous and government-Indigenous relations. Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 104
The Edwin Brooks Letters: Part II
Brooks moved from eastern Canada to what is now Indian Head in the spring of 1882; went into partnership in with George P. Murray to form Murray and Brooks, General Merchants, 1883. In 1885 he sat on the jury that found Louis Riel Guilty of High Treason. Letters contain some commentary on local Indigenous peoples, events and settler-Indigenous and government-Indigenous relations. Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 30
The Edwin Brooks Letters: Part III
Brooks moved from eastern Canada to what is now Indian Head in the spring of 1882; went into partnership in with George P. Murray to form Murray and Brooks, General Merchants, 1883. In 1885 he sat on the jury that found Louis Riel Guilty of High Treason. Letters contain some commentary on local Indigenous peoples, events and settler-Indigenous and government-Indigenous relations. Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 67.
An Episode of the North-West Rebellion 1885
Experiences of Starting and Conducting a Store in Saskatchewan in the Early ‘80s.
The First of All Things: The Significance of Place in Métis Histories and Communities in the Qu'Appelle Valley, Saskatchewan
"Fleury, Patrice"
Forty Years in the North-West
Historical note:
W.J. Carter was a carpenter in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan (NWT).Frog Lake Massacre
From Saskatoon to Moose Jaw with the Prisoner Riel
From the Diary of a Hudson's Bay Company's Clerk in the Seventies.
Historical note:
[G. F. Shepherd, Notes 1937-1974]
File contains hand written and typed notes of historian George Shepherd, dated from 1937-1974. The notes include several pages on Aboriginal history in the North-West, that were scanned for this database. This includes a wide variety of material: from copy of a letter written by Louis Riel, to a list of the reserves in Saskatchewan in 1962 and their estimated landbase and populations.
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Gee Meeyo Pimawtshinawn (It Was a Good Life): Saskatchewan Métis Road Allowance Memories: A Living Heritage Project
A Glimpse of 1885
Homesteading at Wilcox
Indian Record (Vol. XXVII, No. 10, November, 1964)
Indian Record (Vol. XXVII, No. 3, March, 1964)
Indian Record (Vol. XXVII, No. 9, October, 1964)
Indigenous Digital Storytelling in Video: Witnessing with Alma Desjarlais
Indigenous Voices
"Inspector Dickens Journal" Fort Pitt, 1885.
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J. Z. LaRocque: A Métis Historian’s Account of His Family’s Experiences during the North-West Rebellion of 1885
Discusses Joseph Zépherin LaRocque, born in Lebret, Saskatchewan, who was one of the very few Métis vernacular historians writing in the early 20th century.
James Brady #4
James Brady #5
James Walsh Papers - The Riel Rebellion
Historical note:
James Morrow Walsh (22 May 1840 - 25 July 1905) was a North West Mounted Police (NWMP) officer and the first Commissioner of the Yukon Territory. Born in Prescott, Ontario, James Walsh was one of the original officers of the NWMP.