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Mel Rebellion Centennial River Expedition MEL REBELLION CENTENNIAL RIVER EXPEDITION • 3 « ••'• at /ffitf i tut* AN INTRODUCTION Twenty—five years ago I first visited Batoche and realised Western Canada had a history. School had taught me that history was something found in Europe, United States and possibly if you could stand the boredom, Eastern Canada. Everybody believed that Canadian History was dull. I was touched by what I saw at Batoche. The church, the graveyard, the river valley and the rows of trenches. Here men had lived and died for what they believed. Since that time I have visited hundreds of historic sites and have become fascinated with the rich cultural heritage we have in Western Canada. This project was an attempt to make people more aware. The souvenir publication is the final chapter and is being published and distributed Dn the 100th Anniversary of the hanging of Louis Riel. One hundred years ago, the Illustrated War News recorded the events (with prejudices, of course) and we have decided to use newspaper clippings to tell our story as wel 1. It was a most interesting project. There were disappointments but overall it was a great success. We resurrected the romantic sternwheeler and gave it a new use as a modern recreational craft. Without a doubt, yau will see more of these on our rivers and lakes in the future. And if the worst occurs and there is no spin-off, at least there is the satisfaction that 150 of these booklets arts now across Canada. Maybe one or two will survive until the bicentennial and someone will be inspired to try it all again. I wish I could be there. It was a great trip. Bruce Haig Historic Trails Society of Alberta 1115 - 8th Avenue South Lethbridge, Alberta November 16, 1785 2 ^BB-' BX^ ^CKB' ?& -0-W its* -•.. GENERAL IN CHARGE OF THE MIDDLETON MILITIA STEAMERS XT MKDICINK HAT 1.UM-IN.. rtMlUJXITUI.N AND STOUKM ..........~ u -»>*-•>*? ,,-•-$- ^«A*W&& i »ii liiiW I I —~~ THE STEAUEKMARQU1S POLIHO Oft A SrtALLOW |H T11E SASKATCHEWAN. TABLE OF CONTENTS An Introduction 1 The North West (Riel) Rebellion - A summary 5 The Project Evolves 7 Ship's Log - Gait Discovery 1 - 1985 35 Diary - Gait Discovery 1 - 1985 41 Batoche - Illustrated War News 52 Moose Jaw's "The Peacock" 56 Logbook of the S.S. Peacock 57 Diary of a Soldier - 1885 67 Descendents 77 Gait Sternwheelers' Summer Voyage 82 Riel Under Guard 84 The Soldiers Return Home 85 Honor Roll - North West Field Force -1885 97 — — tva.1/ r x-^**-v^--.- ^ * .-~* THE SASKATCHEWAN B , .. e . \S/ -•—-:•'.-'"-'-:": r THE NORTHWEST REBELLION OF 1885 The second Riel Rebellion broke out in the valley of the South Saskatchewan where a number of Metis had settled following an earlier rebellion in 1869 at Red River now Winnipeg. To these people the building of the CPR was a serious threat. Many had made their living transporting goods by cart across the prairies. The railway promised to take this away. Another source of income had been the hunting of buffalo but by the 1880s the herds were gone and their farms were all that was left. But government surveyors were crossing the praires paying little attention to Metis squatters who felt they would soon be dispossessed. Their cousins, the Indians had recently been granted reserves but those with a mixture of both white and Indian blood seemed unable to fit into either world. They saw white settlers coming into the country, and in some cases receiving title to parts of their farms, and they were panic-stricken. Representations were made to the Canadian Government: but it failed to understand the seriousness of the situation. In 1884 the Metis sent a delegation to Louis Riel who was teaching school at St. Peter's Mission near Great Falls, Montana. He had led the Metis in their earlier struggle at Red River and he accepted their invitation to help his people again. Setting up his headquarters at Batoche north of Saskatoon, by the spring of 1885 he had given up trying to get action by constitutional means and had set up his own government. On March 26, a detachment of North West Mounted Police sent out to nip the rebellion in the bud was defeated by the Metis under Gabriel Dumont at Duck Lake. There was fear there would be a general Indian uprising; the Indians did massacre most of the whites at a Hudson's Bay Co. post near present day Lloydminster. The NWMP had to abandon a number of forts and whites were forced to take refuge within the stockades of Fort Battleford. The Duck Lake disaster caused the Canadian Government to finally act. and a -force of 4,000 men under General Middleton was • organised and rushed to the west .by. the newly built CPR. :.1;;_. ..... Middleton divided his troops into three columns: the main force detrained at at Qu'Appelle, and pushed northwest towards Batoche: a second column under Col. Otter, proceeded north from Swift Current to relieve Battleford; a third column under General Strange, marched north from Calgary to. Edmonton. Otter was the first to reach his objective. After relieving Battleford he was checked by a band of Crees under Poundmaker at Cutknife Hill. Middleton was held up by the Metis at Fish Creek but on May 12 defeated Riel's mam force at Batoche. Meanwhile General Strange had reached Edmonton and was closing in on Big Bear and his Crees Riel was captured a few days after the fall of Batoche and on July 2 with Big Bear surrendering, the rebellion was over. In the fall of 1885, Riel and other leaders of the rebellion were tried at Regina on charges of high treason and found guilty. 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TERRITORIES COUNCIt •-•'•_ •-"- ~~-. rt TROM TB'83" LEGEND Telegraph lin« , Indian ReseVvationj- .GS2 North-we'll Mounted Police poili.T - ' f 0 100 MILES ' - - , The West " THE PROJECT S TA RT S OCTOBER 13,1982 Sternwheelers to follow Oldman route Lethbridge residents will be tran­ Medicine Hat to receive her machinery, "How the stern wheel is propelled is sported back 100 years on July 1, 1983, to shipped from Pittsburgh by rail, Haig of no consequence," Haig said. "It could the day when sternwheelers navigated said in a prepared statement. be anything from a bicycle chain to a the Oldman River between Lethbridge A Missouri River steamboat man, dog-propelled treadmill." and Medicine Hat. Captain Todd, had been brought to Coal­ In addition, the crafts must conform Bruce Haig, president of the Whoop- banks to build a boat for use on the to federal safety standards and must Up Trails Heritage Foundation, today Oldman River, which was shallow like carry 25 pounds of coal. announced the Gait Sternwheeler Cen­ the Missouri. All entries will get a certificate and tennial Re-enactment, an event in which The boats are expected to arrive in prizes will be awarded for the most modern-day sternwheelers will float Medicine Hat on July 3, in time for the unique design, the most authentic de­ down the river along the same route used town's own centennial July 4. sign, the smallest craft to finish, the by early boats to transport coal to the Haig said the foundation's steering largest craft to finish and the best team CPR in.Medicine Hat. committee has set a limit of 25 boats for costume. July 1 has been chosen, even though it the trip and anyone wishing to join must A J100 entry fee will be charged. For was 100 years before July 2 that the hull register by Dec. 31. more information, contact Haig at 328- of a boat was launched at Coalbanks Each craft must have a working stern 382Sror write to U15 8tb Ave. S. (renamed Lethbridge) and floated to wheel, he said. Lethbridge. Announced on the River run 100 ANNIVERSARY finds one r of the start of While it looks like'no'one is interested in re-enacting the route sternwheelers na­ GALT MINE #1 vigated between Lethbridge- and Medicine Hat nearly 100 1 r years ago, organizers aren' which determined the giving up. "We received one official SITE OF LETHBRIDGE registration so far."- said' r Bruce Haig, president of the Whoop-Up Trails Heritage. Foundation. "The deadline was to have been Dec. 31,' but it's been extended till whenever. The event is July. r 1, so we still have time." Interest expressed The foundation is spon-. soring the Gait Stern­ sternwheeler pla wheeler Centennial' in an Re-enactment, an event in which modern-day stern­ Ifiterest has been shown already in the wheelers will travel the Old- Gait Sternwheeler Centennial Re-enactment man River along the same; scheduled for the July 1 holiday next sum­ route used by the early coal r mer, organizer Bruce Haig said Thursday. transports. Two groups have called him because they Haig said a meeting is want to get involved, he said.
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