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ADAMS, James R., of Dorchester, New Brunswick - Carpenter –
Died February 8, 1884 at Calgary, N.W.T. - Murdured by Jesse
Williams, a negro cook, who is hanged on March 29, 1884. – (JRO
84).
ANDERSON, David (The Right Rev.), D.D. - Bishop of Rupert's Land
(1849-64) – Born February 10, 1814 in London, England –
Died November 5, 1885 at Clifton Parsonage, Bristol, England –
He returned to England upon his resignation of his bishopric. –
(Obit. 85).
BARNSTON, John George, B.C.L., M.P.P for Cariboo in British Columbia
Assembly (1872-75) – Born April 17, 1835 at Martin's Falls,
H.B.T. – Died December 22, 1883 in Victoria, British Columbia –
He was a son of the late Geo. Barnston, Esq. (see preceding). –
(Obit. 83).
BÉLANGER, Edouard – Died April 30, 1885 in
the river Saskatchewan aged 20 – Drown by the upsetting of his
canoe – Son of Factor Bélanger, of the H's. B. Co.,
Cumberland House. – (JRO 85).
BLACK, John – Late
Recorder of Rupert's Land – Born in 1817 – Died February
3, 1879, St. Andrew's, Scotland – (Obit.
79).
BRAZEAU, G. W.,
interpreter and guide to the North-West Mounted Police – Died
May 25, 1880, Fort Saskatchewan, N.W.T – Accidentally shot
while cleaning a Winchester rifle – (JRO
80-81).
CASEY, Robt. - A cripple – Died July 13, 1885 near Medicine
Hat, N.W.T. - Killed by a cowboy named Hall as the upshot of a
dispute over the result of a horse race. Hall escapes. – (JRO
85).
CAUCHON, Joseph Edouard (Hon.) – Lieut.-Governor of Manitoba
(1877-82) – Born December 16, 1816 at St. Roch, Quebec City –
Died February 23, 1885 at Whitewood, near Qu'Appelle, N.W.T. –
Died at his son's residence – (Obit.
85).
CHAPELLIERE, Father; and
4 Indians – Died August 12, 1882, Lake Muskegs (N.W.T., today
in Saskatchewan) – Drowned – (ADS 82).
CLINE, K. – Died June 9, 1886 at Moosejaw, N.W.T.
– Killed by lightning – (ADS
86).
COCHRAN, Fitzgerald – Barrister (1856) –
Died April 16, 1886 at Calgary, N.W.T., where he had resided since
1884, aged about 50 – He wa a son to the late Rev. Dr. Cochran
of Halifax, Nova Scotia. – (Obit.
86).
CONNOR (or KOEHNER), John, a German Jew – Workman on the C.P.R.
- Died July 17, 1885 at Regina, N.W.T. - Executed for the murder of
Hy. Mulasky, a Pole, fellow-workman on the C.P.R. - He had come to
Canada in 1882 – (JRO
85, see May 2, 1885).
COWAN, Alexander – Died July 10, 1886 at
Battleford, N.W.T. – Drowned – (ADS
86).
DESLAURIERS, a man from Ottawa – Died September 9, 1882, Turtle
Mountain, N.W.T. – Murdered during an altercation by a man
named Levesque, formerly of Ottawa, who is sentenced to be hung but
is respited on technical grounds – (JRO
82).
DICKENS, Francis Jeffrey – Late Sub-Inspector in the N. W.
Mounted Police (1874-86) – Born January 15, 1845 – Died
June 11, 1886 at Moline, Illinois, U.S.A. - He was the 2nd
son of the distinguished English novelist. – (Obit.
86).
FRASER, George Simpson (Capt.) – Late H.M.'s 62nd
Regt. of Foot. – Born January 23, 1839 at Abitibi, H.B.T.
(today in Quebec) – Died November 21, 1883 in Montreal, Quebec
– He married in 1881 the daughter of the late Edward Vennor,
Esq., of Montreal. His father was a chief factor in the H. B. Co.'s
service. – (Obit. 83).
FRECHETTE, Edmond (Capt.) – Formerly of the N. W.
Mounted Police – Died October 1, 1885 in Ottawa, Ontario, aged
44 – (Obit. 85).
FRENCH, John (Capt.) – Commanding a company of
scouts, which he had organized – Died May 13, 1885 Batoche,
N.W.T. – Killed at the capture of Batoche – He was a son
of the late John French, Esq., of Mornington Park, Co. Dublin,
Ireland, and a brother of Col. G. A. French, C.M.G., formerly Commr.
of the N.W. Mounted Police, Canada, and now commandant of Queensland
forces (Australia). – (Obit.
85).
FULLERTON – Died July 29, 1882, Qu'Appelle, N.W.T.
– Drowned – (ADS 82).
GRAYBURN, Marmaduke – Member of the North-West
Mounted Police Force – Died November 17, 1879, near Fort Walsh,
N.W.T. – Shot by Indians while out alone on duty – He was
a son of Capt. Grayburn, Department of Marine and Fisheries, Ottawa –
(JRO 79).
HOLT, J. R., and John McMillan – Died February 1,
1883, Fort Walsh, N. W. T. – Frozen while on their way from
Maple Creek to a dance at F. Walsh – (ADS 83).
ISBISTER, Alex. Kennedy, M. A., LL.B. – Formerly a
factor in the Hudson's Bay Co. – Died May 28, 1883 in England
aged 61. – (Obit. 83).
KOEHNER (of CONNOR), John, a German Jew – Workman
on the C.P.R. – Died July 17, 1885 at Regina, N.W.T. –
Executed for the murder of Hy. Mulasky, a Pole, fellow-workman on the
C.P.R. – He had come to Canada in 1882 – (JRO
85, see May 2, 1885).
LAIRD, Janet (Mrs.) – Died January 27, 1879, New
Glasgow, P.E.I. Aged 77 – Relict of the late Hon. Alexander
Laird, of P.E.I. and mother of Hon. David Laird, Privy Councillor and
Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories – (Obit.
79).
MACDONALD, Rolland, Q.C. – Judge of the County
Court of Welland, Ontario – Born March 17, 1810 near Fort
William, N.W.T. – Died December 9, 1881, Welland, Ontario –
(Obit. 80-81).
McCARTHY, John – an old man – Died June,
1883 about a mile from Troy, N.W.T. – Murdered. John and George
Stevenson, half-breeds, borthers, are charged with the murder and
placed on trial October 1, 1883. They are found guilty and sentenced
to be hanged on 28th November, but are respited for
further enquiry. – (JRO 83).
McCARTHY, John – Died June 14, 1883 –
Murdered by John and George Stephenson who are hanged on April 3,
1884. – (JRO 84).
McINTYRE, Maggie – Died July 29, 1882, Qu'Appelle,
N.W.T. – Drowned – (ADS 82).
McKAY, James (Hon.) – ex-M.L.C. of Manitoba –
Born at Edmonton House, Saskatchewan, N. W. T. – Died December
3, 1879, Deer Lodge, near Winnipeg, Manitoba – He was the
eldest son of Mr. James McKay, of Sutherlandshire, Scotland –
(Obit. 79).
McLEAN, John (Rt. Rev.) – First Anglican Bishop of
Saskatchewan (1874-86), M.A. (1851); D.D. (1871); D.C.L. (1871) –
Born November 17, 1828 at Portsay (Portsoy), Scotland – Died
November 7, 1886 at Bishop's Court, Prince Albert, N.W.T. –
Died the result of an accident. – (Obit.
86).
McMILLAN, John, and J. R. Holt – Died February 1,
1883, Fort Walsh, N. W. T. – Frozen while on their way from
Maple Creek to a dance at F. Walsh – (ADS 83).
MOWAT, R. B. – Died July 23, 1883, N.W.T. –
Struck by lightning – (ADS 83).
MULASKY, Hy., a Pole – Workman onf the C.P.R. –
Died April 6, 1885 at Moosejaw, N.W.T. – Murdered by John
Connor (or Koehner), a German Jew, who is executed on July 17, 1885.
– He had come to Canada in 1882 – (JRO
85, see May 2, 1885).
POUNDMAKER – A celebrated Indian (Cree) Chief –
Died July 4, 1886 at Crowfoot camp, N.W.T. – He had recently
been released from the Penitentiary for participation in the N. W.
rebellion. – (Obit. 86).
RICHARDSON, Charlotte Isabel (Mrs.) – Died
February 2, 1879, Battleford, N.W.T. Aged 56 – Wive of Lt. Col.
Richardson, M.E.C. and Stipendiary Magistrate, N. W. Territories –
(Obit. 79).
RICHARDSON, Elizabeth Sarah (Mrs.) – Died February
2, 1879, St. Thomas, Ontario, aged 83 – Relict of the late
Richard Richardson, Esq., first manager of the Bank of Upper Canada
at London, Ontario, and mother of Lt. Col. Richardson, M.E.C. and
Stipendiary Magistrate of the North West Territories. – (Obit.
79).
RIEL, Louis – Leader of the Insurrection in the
N.-W. Territories – Born October 23, 1844 at St. Boniface,
Manitoba – Executed November 16, 1885 at Regina, N.W.T. –
He was the son of the late Louis Riel, in his lifetime a popular
leader among the ''Half-breeds'' of Red River, of which country he
was a native, by Marguerite Boucher, a ''Half-breed'' woman; and
grand son of Jean Baptiste Riel, a native of Berthier, Quebec. –
(Obit. 85).
SEXSMITH, J. – Died February 8, 1883, Regina,
N.W.T. – Smothered by gas in well – (ADS 83).
SKINNER, Enoch Wood (Rev.) – Methodist missionary
– Born in 1855 – Died October 24, 1878, near Carlton, N.
W. T. – Accidentally killed. It is believed he was killed by
the accidental explosion of his gun, which caused instantaneous death
– (Obit. 78).
SMITH, Bella – Died July 29, 1882, Qu'Appelle,
N.W.T. – Drowned – (ADS 82).
STEINHAUER, Henry Bird (Rev.) – Methodist
missionary – Born in 1804 in the Ramah Indian settlement, Lake
Simcoe, Ontario – Died December 29 at Whitefish Lake, N.W.T. –
He was a pure blooded Indian of the Chippewa tribe, and was adopted
in early life by a Pennsylvanian German family named Steinhauer, from
whom he took his name and to whom he was indebted for a liberal
education. – (Obit. 85).
STEPHENSON, George – Died April 3, 1884 at Regina,
N.W.T. – Hanged for the murder of John McCarthy on June 14,
1883. – (JRO 84).
STEPHENSON, John – Died April 3, 1884 at Regina,
N.W.T. – Hanged for the murder of John McCarthy on June 14,
1883. – (JRO 84).
STEWART, (Lt.-Col.)
– Northern traveller and explorer – Died in 1881,
Edmonton, N. W. T. – (Obit.
80-81).
SWIFT RUNNER, a Cree Indian – Died December 20,
1879, Fort Saskatchewan, N.W.T. – Hanged, having admitted
murdering his entire family, consisting of his mother, his wife and
seven children, this being the first legal execution which has taken
place in the North West Territories – (JRO
79).
THIBAULT, Jean Baptiste (Very Rev.) – Ordained
1833, Red River Territory; missionary in Saskatchewan 1842 to 1872 –
Born December 14, 1880 – Died April 4, 1879, St. Denis en
bas, Quebec – (Obit. 79).
WALSH – Inspector Dominion Lands, N.W.T. –
Deceased, successor appointed on March 11, 1885 – (PAPS
Dominion 85).
WALSH, Aquila – Commr. of Dominion Lands for
Manitoba and the N.W.T. (1882-85) – Born May 15, 1823 at
Charlotteville, Ontario – Died March 6, 1885 at Winnipeg,
Manitoba – Died by accident – He was descended from U. E.
Loyalists. – (Obit. 85).
WILLIAMS, A. T. H. (Lt.-Col.) – M.P, commanding
the Midland Battalion during the North-West troubles – Funeral
on July 21, 1885 in St. John's Church (Ch. of England) at Port Hope,
Ontario – (JRO 85).
WILLIAMS, Arthur Trefusis Heneage (Lieut.-Col.) –
M.P., commanding the Midland Regt. on active service in the N.W.T. –
Born in 1837 at Penryn Park, Port Hope, Ontario – Died July 4,
1885 on board the steamer North-West, on the Saskatchewan
river, N.W.T. – He was the son of the late Commander J. T.
Williams, R.N., who represented Durham in the Can. Assembly, 1840-48.
– (Obit. 85).
WILLIAMS, Jesse – A negro cook – Died March
29, 1883 at Calgary, N.W.T. – Hanged for the murder on February
8, 1884 at Calgary of James R. Adams. – (JRO
84).
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