Fish Creek Catholic Church facing south
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Image of the Fish Creek Roman Catholic Church, facing south.
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Fort Battleford, built in 1876 and in use until 1924, was the sixth Northwest Mounted Police fort to be established in the Northwest Territories of Canada, and played a central role in the events of the Northwest Resistance of 1885.Historical note:
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Fort Carlton was a Hudson's Bay Company fur trade post from 1810 until 1885. As a Company post it primarily dealt in provisions, namely pemmican and buffalo robes although other furs were traded as well.Historical note:
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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].Historical note:
"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).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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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.