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UNIVERSITY OF MANLTOBA/UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG JOINT MASTER'S PROGRAM GEORGE FLETT, NATIVE PRESBYTERIAN MISSIONARY: "OLD PHILOSOPHER"/"REV 'D GENTLEMAN1' THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE HISTORY DEPARTMENT IN CANDIDACY FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS BY ALVINA BLOCK WINNIPEG, MANITOBA OCTOBER, 1997 National Library Bibliothèque nationale du Canada Acquisitions and Acquisitions et Bibliographie Services services bibliographiques 395 WeliiiStreet 395, nre Wellington OttawaON K1A ON4 Ottawa ON K1A ON4 Canada Canada The author has granted a non- L'auteur a accordé une licence non exclusive licence allowing the exclusive permettant à la National Library of Canada to Bibliothèque nationale du Canada de reproduce, loan, distribute or seU reproduire, prêter, distriiuer ou copies of this thesis in microform, vendre des copies de cette thèse sous paper or electronic fomts. la forme de microfiche/fïlq de reproduction sur papier ou sur format électronique. 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THE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES ***** COPYRIGHT PERMISSION PAGE GEORGE PfiETï, HATIVE PBESBYTERUH MISSIOî?AEY: "OLD PBZLOSOPfIE61'1/"BEV' D -" A ThesidPracticum submitted to the Facalty of Graduate Studies of The University of Manitoba in partial fnlnllment of the reqairements of the degree of Permission has been granted to the Library of The University of Manitoba to lend or se11 copies of this thesWpracticum, to the National Library of Canada to microfilm this thesis and to lend or seil copies of the film, and to Dissertations Abstracts International to pubIish an abstract of this thesis/practicum. The author reserves other publication nghts, and neither this thaislpt-acticum aor extensive extracts from it may be printed or otheRvise reproduced without the author's written permission. Table of Contents Photograph of George Flett ......................-.... i Notes for Family Tree .............................iv, v Map ......................-..........................-vi Abbreviations .......................................vii Preface and Acknowledgements ......................... -1 Chapter George Flett's Ancestors, Relatives, and Early Social Contexts .........-..............O...14 At Sault Ste. Marie, 1835-1836, and Red River 1836-1861 ...........O...-...............---27 III. George Flett at Victoria, 1864-1866.-.-....48 IV. The Prince Albert Mission and a Return to Red River, 1866-1873 ...................O......-58 George Flett and his Native Congregations: Riding Mountain and Okanase Reserve, 1873- 1897 ...................................... 88 George Flett and the Presbyterian Foreign Missions Cornmittee, 1874-1897. ............114 VII. Synthesis: The Two Worlds of George Flett ................................ .--.-143 Bibliography .......-..............-.--.--..------.-.178 REV. GEORGE FLETT Photo courtesy of Provincial Archives of Manitoba, Mrs. John Black Collection 9-13 (ca. 1860-1870) PANILY TREE (George Flett, 1617 - 1897)* ail Feathers Wutunea Cardinal hief nekis d. ca. 1873 hief Louis Oosoup Ooeaup Band ml Assiniboine Qu'Appelle Area hief Red Pheaaant/Kaaekosit Hary Cut Sleeve narried David Ahenekew I eorge Bone .- Sarah/Sally 1 Antoine Bone b. ca. 1775 d. 27 Apr. 1845, m3 Orkney 5 Baptiste Bone Red River b. ca, 1824 d. 1924 al Jacques Cardinal 2 hief Keeseekoowenen 10 b, ca, 1819 d. 10 Apr. 1906 - --- -- - n2 James Peter Uhitford 3 -Uarqaret/Peqgy Whitford 6 b. 26 Hat. 1766, b. 1796, Swan River St. Paul's Pariah baptism C a. 7 Dec. 1823, m. Pre. 1795, Severn? Red River d. 5 Hay 1818, d. 27 May, 1877, Poplar Point io. 26 NOV. 1840, Red River d. 28 Oct. 1897, Okanase m. George Plett Sr. 7 b. Ca. 1775, Firth Francise Cook 11 -Letitia 12 P. 7 Dec. 1823, Red River b. 1822 b. 6 Aug. 1839 d. 10 June 1850, Red River ci. Ca. 5 Aug. 1839 a. 1861, Alexander nurray a. Hary Roes 15 b. 10 Jan. 1024, -4hild who died 14 Columbia River area d. Ca. 1857, Red River Alexander Ross 8 d. 19 nar. 1912 b. 1783, Scotland d. 1856, Red River I m. Sarah Tiaentwa 9 L-~lexandet W. Rous 17 b. ca. 1798, Columbia River ares m. Catherine Murray Baptized and a. 24 Dec. 1820 21 June, 1865, Red Rivet d. 26 Feb. 1884, Winnipeg A Ann Sutherland Annie Flett 16 b. 23 NOV. 1861 a. J. A. Lauder 30 nay, 1878 d Lauder, 1897 *See the notes on the next page. *Notes for FAMILY TREE (George Flett 1817-1897) Rarihokwats, wSarah/Sally,w a profile deposited at the United Church of Canada: Archives of the Conference of Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario (UCA), 25 April 1997. Rarihokwats, wSarah/Sally.u Hudson's Bay Company Archives (HBCA), Biographies Binder W to 2. UCA, LA. Donaghy Collection, PP 11, 82-P200, Wkanase Indian Mission," 6. Michael Cardinal was narned Mekis Okanase Cardinal according to Osborne Lauder and Brian Whitford at the Keeseekoowenin Reserve. They said Okanase meant Little Bone. Personal interview, 31 May 1996. Walter Traill referred to Chief Little Bone in Mae Atwood (ed. ) , In Ru~ert's Land. Memoirs of Walter Traill (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1970), 102- 103. For Mekis' approximate death date, see Alexander Morris, The Treaties of Canada with the Indians of Manitoba and the North-West Territories (Toronto: Belfords, Clarke & Co., 1880), 339-340. For Cardinal's three wives, see Rarihokwats, wSarah/Sally.fl See also Donaghy, 6. Osborne Lauder and Brian Whitford agree. HBCA, Biographies Binder W to 2. See also Donaghy and Rarihokwats, "Margaret Whitford," a profile deposited at UCA. E.E. Rich (ed.), Minutes of Council Northern Department of Rupert Land Societv 1821-1831 (London: The Chanplain Society for the Hudson's Bay Record Society, 1939), Appendix A, 213. Frits Pannekoek, "Ross, Alexander,' Dictionarv of Canadian Bioara~hv,Vol. VI11 (1851-18601, 765. Laurenda Daniells, frRoss,Sally (Sarah]," Dictionarv of Canadian Bioara~hv,Vol. XI (1881-1890), 775-776. John A. Caldwell, Prince Rupert, B.C. supplied Sallyfs surname. "From the Land of the Wkanakons . 12 November 1996. Manuscript in possession of Alvina Block, Winnipeg. Rarihokwats, rfSarah/Sally.M Compare with Donaghy. Provincial Archives of Manitoba (PAM), Anglican Parish Register Data. 12. PM, Scrip records, Reel T-4687. See also Flettfs will in William Coldwell papers, PAM, MG14 C73, Box 7, Correspondence file, 1894-1898, 13. PAM, William Coldwell papers, Box 7, Flett to Coldwell 21 August 1875. For Flett's death date see Free Press, 29 October 1897. 14. PAM, Ross Family Collection, MG2 C14, Letter No. 204, Alexander W. Ross to James Ross, 8 March 1857. 15. PM, Scrip records, Reel T-4687. For death date, see Donaghy, special insert. 16. PAM, Scrip records, Reel T-4687. See also Flettfs will. 17. PM, Calendar of Alexander Ross Family Papers. Scrip records, Reel T-4687. LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AF'P: The Acts and Proceedings of the Presbyterian Church in Canada. FMC : Foreign Missions Conmittee. HBCA : Hudson's Bay Company Archives. PAM : provincial Archives of Manitoba. SA% : Saskatchewan Archives Board. TARR : Treaty & Aboriginal Rights Research Centre of Manitoba. VUA : United Church of Canada: Victoria University Archives in Toronto. UCA : ~nitedChurch of Canada: Archives of the Conference of Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario in Winnipeg. vii George Flett, Native Presbyterian Missionary: "Old Philos~pher~/~~ev'dGentlemann Pref ace On 15 July 1875 William Wagner, a surveyor for the reserves of Treaty Two in southwestern ~anitoba,visited the Okanase Reserve. He reported to David Laird, Superintendent of the North West Territories, that the newly established reserve called Okanase, at Riding Mountain House, was better off than the surrounding reserves because the Presbyterians had sent a wschoolmaster, a Mr. George Flettw to work there. Mr. Flett did not "stand on his dignity as a Revfd oentleman would do but like the old Philosophersm he went from "house to house" teaching tne people.' George Flett had begun his church career as an interpreter on the first Presbyterian missionary expedition to the Northwest from 1866-1867. He served as rnissionary to the Ojibwa at Okanase (now known as Keeseekoowenin) Reserve from 1873-1895. Flett, his career, and his relationships are exceptionally interesting. He lived during a critical time in the history of the Northwest, and was involved in many aspects of its economic, political and religious life. Yet, although we have biographies of European missionaries such as James Evans and Robert Rundle, and of native '~reaty& Aboriginal Rights Research Centre of ~anitoba (TARR), RG10, Vol. 3555, file 10, William Wagner to David Laird 15 July 1875. copies from NAC, Ottawa. missionaries such as Peter Jones, Henry Budd, and Charles Pratt,' no scholarly work about George Flett has been published. Flett was a bicultural individual of Orkney/Cree origin. His wife, Mary Ross Flett, was of Scottish/Okanagan background. Biculturalism, in the Northwest, was a common result of fur trade marriages. The fur trade in Rupert's Land, from 1670 to the 1820s, presented some unique problems. One of these predicaments was that in the early years of the fur trade, Company men were net allowed to bring white women with them into Indian country because it was too expensive to bring family units from Engiand and France to the North West.' European fur traders soon '~crJames Evans see, among others, the hagiographie work of Egerton R. Young, The A~ostleof the North: Reverend James Evans (Toronto: Revell, 1899). Rundlers diary has been edited by Hugh A. Dempsey with an introduction and notes by Gerald M. Hutchinson, The Rundle Journals, 1840- 1848 (Calgary: Historical Society of Alberta/Glenbow- Alberta Institute, 1977). Peter Jones% biography is by Donald Smith in Sacred Feathers (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987). Henry Budd's diary has been edited by Katherine Pettipas, The Diarv of the Reverend Henrv Budd 1870-1875 (Winnipeg: Manitoba Record Society, 1974).
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