Lawrence Clarke (June 26, 1832 – October 5, 1890, Prince Albert,

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) was the

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of the Saskatchewan District of the

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. He resided at

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. He later became a

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. Clarke moved to what is today

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in the early 1880s and was a prominent local citizen with connections in the

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of Canada. He is regarded by some as worsening the living conditions for the

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.. He questioned Gabriel Dumont for fining a group of Métis who had begun to hunt bison before the official hunt of the St. Laurent community in the spring of 1875, but after investigation, the Crown carried no action against Dumont or the St. Laurent group. However, after this interaction the concern the government had over the St. Laurent settlement being seen as a 'provisional' government as with Riel in 1869–70, saw the St Laurent group become less organized in their political structure to prevent tensions with the crown.Father Alexandre André, "Petite Chronique de St. Laurent," 1894 1871, Oblates Archives, Provincial Archives of Alberta. Constance Kerr Sissons, ''John Kerr'' (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1946). Some figures in the Métis community, notably

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, also blamed him for inciting the Métis to violence in 1885 by spreading false rumours of an impending government attack.

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, first mayor of Prince Albert was Clarke's brother-in-law. He was the first elected

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' history.

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Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online Archives of the Northwest Territories Legislature 1876 - 1905
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