First Shell into Batoche, May 9, 1885
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Image of cannon fire during the battle of Batoche. A fence is visible in foreground; horses, men and smoke seen in background.
Historical note:
Fort Pelly was located at the Indian Elbow of the Assiniboine River located eight miles south-west of the site of the present village of Pelly. Fort Pelly was built in 1824 by the Hudson's Bay Company. The high palisade fence that surrounded the Fort in 1872 has been replaced by a plank fence in this photo.A paper read before the Society on the evening of November 25th, 1886.
"Published as an Appendix to the Tenth Report of the Geographic Board of Canada"; originally published in 1913. Reprinted from the Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico edited by Frederick Webb Hodge published as Bulletin 30, Bureau of American Ethnology.