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Temporary North-West Council
The Temporary North-West Council, more formally known as the Council of the Northwest Territories and by its short name as the North-West Council, lasted from the creation of Northwest Territories, Canada, in 1870 until it was dissolved in 1876. The council was mostly made up of members of the Manitoba Legislative Assembly and members of the Parliament of Canada who were appointed to serve on the council. No members appointed were allowed to sit on the council until December 28, 1872. The council ran the territories under the ''Temporary Government of Rupert's Land Act'' and the ''Manitoba Act''. The council's mandate was renewed every year by the federal government until it was dissolved in 1876, to make way for the 1st Council of the Northwest Territories. Early history The territory formally known as Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory were sold to the Government of Canada by the Hudson's Bay Company on November 19, 1869. The two territories were amalgamated to form ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Morris (politician)
Alexander Morris (March 17, 1826 – October 28, 1889) was a Canadian politician. He served in the cabinet of Prime Minister John A. Macdonald (1869–1872), and was the second Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (1872–1877). He also served as the founder and first Lieutenant Governor of the District of Keewatin. Biography Morris was born in Perth, Upper Canada (now Ontario), the son of William Morris, himself a prominent Canadian businessman and Conservative politician. From this privileged social position, Morris was educated in Canada and Scotland and worked for three years at the Montreal firm of Thorne and Heward. In 1847, he moved to Kingston, Ontario, and articled for a year under John A. Macdonald. In 1849, he became the first person to receive an arts degree from McGill University. He would subsequently receive other degrees from McGill, including a DCL in 1862. In 1851, he was admitted to the bar in both Canada East and Canada West; he subsequently built up a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pascal Breland
Pascal Breland was a famous 19th-century pre-confederation Canadian Métis farmer and politician. He was a well-known Metis trader and was popularly nicknamed "le Roi des traiteurs" (The King of the traders). He held several appointed political positions as well as elected offices, with his work and influence playing a key role in shaping the identity of Western Canadian provinces as they exist today. Personal life Breland was born on June 15, 1811 in the Saskatchewan Valley in the Northwest Territories (today in the province of Saskatchewan). His father, Pierre Berland dit Duboishu, was a French-Canadian Voyageur, hunter & trader. His mother, Marie Louise Josephe Bilideau (or Beledau) was of mixed French and First Nations ancestry. In the late 1820s, Pascal moved to the town St. François Xavier, Manitoba, with his family. There, on February 8, 1836, Pascal married Maria Grant (1820-1889), daughter of Cuthbert Grant. Pascal and Maria had fourteen children: * Patrice Breland (18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Christian Schultz
Sir John Christian Schultz (January 1, 1840 – April 13, 1896) was a Manitoba politician and businessman.Richard Gwyn, Nation Maker, Vol. II: pg. 100. Vintage Canada, 2012. Print. He was a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1871 to 1882, a Senator from 1882 to 1888, and the fifth Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba from 1888 to 1895. Background Schultz was born in Amherstburg, Upper Canada (now Ontario). Despite being raised in a low-income household, he saved enough money to study medicine at Queen's College in Kingston (1858–60) and Victoria College in Cobourg (1860–61). He did not graduate from either institution, but nonetheless advertised himself as a "Physician and Surgeon" after moving to the Red River settlement later in 1861 (it is unknown if he purchased a degree, as was legal at the time).See Paragraph 2 oBiography at the ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online''/ref> He also worked as a businessman and speculator in this area, and eventually ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Royal
Joseph Royal (7 May 1837 – 23 August 1902) was a Canadians, Canadian journalist, lawyer, politician, businessman, and Lieutenant-Governors of Northwest Territories, Lieutenant Governor of the Northwest Territories. Early life and career Royal studied at St. Mary's Jesuit college in Montreal. His early publishing career included a term as editor of Montreal's ''Minerve'' from 1857 to 1859. He then founded and published other Montreal-based publications such as ''L'Ordre'' (1859–1860), ''La Revue Canadienne'' (1864) and ''Le Nouveau Monde'' (1867, editor-in-chief). Soon after moving to Manitoba, Royal founded ''Le Metis'' and operated that publication from 1871 to 1882 after which its new owner changed its title to ''Le Manitoba''. His legal career began in Lower Canada where he was called to that province's Bar (law), bar in 1864. He joined the Manitoba bar in 1871 after moving to that province. In 1880, Royal left legal practice. Political career In the 1870 Manitoba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John H
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died c. AD 30), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (lived c. AD 30), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James McKay (fur Trader)
James McKay (1828 – December 2, 1879) was a fur trader, pioneer, and pre-Canadian confederation politician and interpreter. Early life James McKay was born in 1828 at the Hudson's Bay Company's Edmonton House, the son of James Charles (b. 1797, Scotland) and Marguerite Gladu (b. 1809, Métis, Cumberland House). He was a brother to Angus McKay. McKay was educated at the Red River Colony and began work with the HBC in 1853 as a fur-trader and guide/interpreter. Many distinguished visitors sought him out as a guide; he often met the HBC governor, George Simpson in Crow Wing, Minnesota, and escorted him to Upper Fort Garry. In 1857, while at Fort Ellice, he was engaged to guide the John Palliser party from Fort Ellice ( St Lazare, MB) through the Saskatchewan plains to its winter quarters at Fort Carlton, Saskatchewan. McKay married in 1859 and left the HBC in 1860, going into business for himself. He established his home west of the Forks in present-day Manitoba and qu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Nassau Kennedy
William Nassau Kennedy (28 April 1839 – 3 May 1885) was the second Mayor of Winnipeg, Manitoba from 1875 – 1876. He was the first commander of The Royal Winnipeg Rifles. Biography Kennedy was born in Newcastle, Upper Canada (now Newcastle, Ontario) and was the second of six children of John Kennedy, a housepainter and lieutenant-colonel in the militia, and Catharine Lambert. Kennedy enlisted in the Peterborough Rifle Company in 1857. He was commissioned as an ensign in 1865 and served during the Fenian Raids. In 1867, Kennedy was gazetted as a captain in the newly formed 57th Peterborough Battalion of Infantry. In 1870 he joined the Wolseley expedition to fight the Red River Rebellion in what is now Manitoba. He remained in Manitoba after the fighting ended. He died in London on 3 May 1885 and was buried on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery, almost opposite the tomb of Karl Marx Karl Heinrich Marx (; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Hamilton (Northwest Territories Politician)
Robert Hamilton (September 16, 1842 County of Argenteuil, Canada East - January 27, 1911 Saint Boniface, Manitoba Manitoba ( ) is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada at the Centre of Canada, longitudinal centre of the country. It is Canada's Population of Canada by province and territory, fifth-most populous province, with a population o ...) was a pioneer, politician and immigration agent. He served as an appointed member of the Council of the Northwest Territories from 1872 to 1876. References External linksRobert Hamilton biography 1842 births 1911 deaths Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories Mayors of places in Manitoba {{Manitoba-mayor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc-Amable Girard
Marc-Amable Girard (April 25, 1822 – September 12, 1892) was the second premier of Manitoba, and the first Franco-Manitoban to hold that post. The ''Canadian Parliamentary Guide'' lists Girard as having been Premier (or ''Chief Minister'') from 1871 to 1872, but he did not have this title at the time and was not the government leader. In 1874, however, Girard led Manitoba's first ministry to be constituted on principles of "responsible government". In this sense, he may be regarded as the first Premier of Manitoba. Early life Girard was born in Varennes, Lower Canada (now Quebec). Political career He worked as a Notary Public between 1844 and 1870, and was active in local political life (serving as Mayor of Varennes at one stage). He lost an electoral bid for the Province of Canada's Legislative Council in 1858, and a further bid for the Canadian Assembly in 1863 (losing to Parti Rouge leader A.A. Dorion in Hochelaga). During the Riel Rebellion, Girard was sent to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Fraser (Canadian Politician)
William Fraser (June 17, 1832, in Red River Colony, Ruperts Land – September 9, 1909 in Fraser's Grove, Manitoba, Canada) was a farmer, bureaucrat, and politician from Manitoba, Canada. Fraser began his political experience as a Member of the Council of Assiniboia serving from 1868 until 1870. He was appointed to serve on the Temporary North-West Council The Temporary North-West Council, more formally known as the Council of the Northwest Territories and by its short name as the North-West Council, lasted from the creation of Northwest Territories, Canada, in 1870 until it was dissolved in 1876. Th ... on December 28, 1872. The council was the first governing body in Northwest Territories' history. He served that post until 1876. Fraser was one of the only men appointed who did not have a seat in the Manitoba Legislature. The neighborhood of Fraser's Grove in Winnipeg is named after him. External links * * 1832 births 1909 deaths Members of the Legislative Assemb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Dubuc
Sir Joseph Dubuc (26 December 1840 – 7 January 1914), was a Canadian lawyer, politician, and judge who was born in Lower Canada and became an important political figure from Manitoba. Early life Dubuc was from a large family and was irregularly in school because of family responsibilities. He spent some time in the United States and learned English while working in a factory. Upon returning to Quebec, he completed military school in Montreal in November 1866. He further engaged in formal studies, latterly at the Petit Séminaire de Montreal, where he made friends with Louis Riel. This connection would shape his political life in the future. He received a Bachelor of Common Law degree from McGill College in 1869 and was called to the Lower Canada bar the same year. In January 1870, Riel called on him to help with the new provisional government that had been established as part of the Red River Rebellion. Dubuc left for Manitoba in June and, upon his arrival in the Red River ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Delorme
Pierre Delorme (de L'Orme) (ca October 1, 1832 – November 10, 1912) was a Métis fur trader, businessman, farmer and political figure. He represented Provencher in the House of Commons of Canada during the 1st Canadian Parliament as a Conservative member from 1871 to 1872. He also represented St. Norbert South in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1870 to 1874 and St. Norbert from 1878 to 1879. One of his great-grandchildren is best-selling Métis author George R. D. Goulet. The Provincial Road 210 bridge over the Red River near St. Adolphe is named after Pierre Delorme. Life He was born in St. Boniface, Manitoba in 1832 to Joseph Amable Fafard dit Delorme and Josephte Bellisle. He worked for the Hudson's Bay Company at Swan River from 1852 to 1856. In 1854, he was married to Adélaïde Millet dit Beauchemin, daughter of André Millet dit Beauchemin and Madeleine Ducharme. After that, he settled on a farm near Pointe-Coupée ( St. Adolphe). He was a memb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
