The Fight at Duck Lake
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Negative of an artists representation of the fight at Duck Lake, featuring indigenous peoples in romanticized traditional costume holding guns.
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).Historical note:
Charles Arkoll Boulton (b. 17 April 1841 - d. 15 May 1899) is noted for his role in the Red River and North-West Resistances.Historical note:
Ernest Wilson Hubbell was born at Brockville, Ontario on 5 November 1862. He died on 19 February 1943 at his home in Ottawa.Historical note:
Charles Arkoll Boulton (b. 17 April 1841 - d. 15 May 1899) is noted for his role in the Red River and North-West Resistances.Historical note:
Lieutenant Colonel Bowen Van Straubenzie was involved in the Battle of Batoche.Historical note:
Major General Ivor John Caradoc Herbert, 1st Baron Treowen, CB, CMG, KStJ (b. 15 July 1851 - d. 18 October 1933), was a Liberal British politician and British Army officer in the Grenadier Guards, who served as General Commanding Officer in the Canada Forces from 1890 to 1895. In 1896, he was Colonel in the Grenadier Guards. He was made a baronet in 1907 and raised to a barony in 1917.