by Bruce Cherney (part 2 of 2)
Lillian Benyon Thomas’ account in the 1947-48 issue of the Manitoba Historical Society’s Transition magazine claims that Isabel Gunn “followed her lover from the ...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
In June 1806, 26-year-old John Fubbister from Tankerness, St. Andrews Parish, in the Orkney Islands signed a contract with the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) at Stromness. The term of...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2)
In his book, William Barker, VC: The Life, Death and Legend of Canada’s Most Decorated War Hero (2007), Wayne Ralph wrote that “a typical patrol was two and one-half hours, ...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
The unexpected death of Manitoba-born William “Billy” George Barker, as a result of a plane crash in Ottawa while flying a new aircraft, sent Canadian military officials scrambling to organ...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 3 of 3)
The St. Peter’s Reserve vote was over and the procedure to complete the land surrender was set in motion.
The surrender agreement was signed by Chief William Prince, councillors...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2)
To justify the surrender of the St. Peter’s Reserve, the October 1, 1907, Manitoba Free Press commented that: “The best people of the town (Selkirk) ... have for a long time...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
When the St. Peter’s Reserve Act was introduced into the House of Commons on March 23, 1915, an editorial in the Manitoba Free Press proclaimed that “a nine-year-old controversy” had ...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 3 of 3)
When auctioneer James Dowswell of Emerson banged his gavel down, signalling the commencement of the bidding for Roseau River Reserve land, he opened “with the N.E. 1-4 of sec...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 2)
Political and community pressure exerted on Minister of the Interior, Clifford Sifton, to secure the surrender of a significant portion of Roseau River IR 2 had been building over...
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by Bruce Cherney (part 1)
The usual argument in favour of a land surrender of a First Nations reserve was that good agricultural acreage was being under-utilized and could be put to better purpose by white settlers. While the St. P...
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