Camp 'B' Battery, Prince Albert
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Image of members of Camp ‘B’ Battery, Prince Albert; posts and pegs in foreground, men and tents in background.
Comments on issues of treaty rights and fair revenues from reserve resources, and discusses a contract between Onion Lake Cree Nation and an Asian government to build a refinery on Cree land.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.8.
Historical note:
On 2 May 1885 Lieutenant Colonel William Otter was defeated by Poundmaker's war chief Fine-Day at the Battle of Cut Knife near Battleford, SK. A flying column of Canadian militia and army regulars was defeated by Poundmaker despite their use of a Gatling gun.Historical note:
Harold Nelson Woodsworth served as an Indian Agent at a number of agencies in Saskatchewan.