Les Desjarlais: Aboriginal Ethnogenesis and Diaspora in a Canadien Family
Theses
Author/Creator
Heather Devine
Description
History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta, 2001.
Brooks moved from eastern Canada to what is now Indian Head in the spring of 1882; went into partnership in with George P. Murray to form Murray and Brooks, General Merchants, 1883. In 1885 he sat on the jury that found Louis Riel Guilty of High Treason. Letters contain some commentary on local Indigenous peoples, events and settler-Indigenous and government-Indigenous relations. Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 67.