Fort Carlton - Newspaper clipping. - 16 May 1955.
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Description
Newspaper clipping of image or sketch of Fort Carlton, located near Duck Lake, Saskatchewan.
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W.J. Carter was a carpenter in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan (NWT).Historical note:
Original photograph from the Public Archives of Canada. Cited as a CUS Poster, 197-. [Possibly a political poster produced by the Canadian Union of Students].Content and language reflect the attitudes of the times.
Forms part of Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution ... for the Year 1879.
See pages 309-328.
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"Although it was not a military engagement, the incident known as the Frog Lake Massacre proved to be one of the most influential events associated with the North-West Resistance. Incited by hunger and mistreatment rather than political motives, a breakaway element of the Plains Cree murdered nine White men on the morning of April 2, 1885, in Frog Lake, North-West Territories (now Alberta).Historical note:
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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Complete Title: Golden Jubilee Booklet on the History of our Community The Nameless Land "Sometimes called "Montreal Lake" after the name which the school bears, but most frequently referred to as "Fournier's Station. Montreal LakeHistorical note:
The Cree Chief Poundmaker was the Blackfoot Chief Crowfoot's adopted son.Historical note:
This photograph is part of a collection of images used by Reg Taylor of the Saskatoon Star Phoenix in an article he wrote which featured William Bleasdell Cameron, a survivor of the so-called Frog Lake Massacre, 2 April 1885.