Jasper Alberta Index
Alberta Basic History
1816
Pierre Bostonais, d-1827 aka Tete Jaune (meaning yellow head) an Iroquois Metis became a free guide and scout. He obviously explored the passes over the Rocky Mountains. The Yellow Head Highway was named after him.
Jane Howse, Metis b-1816 Saskatchewan living Lakeland eastern Alberta 1891.
Angelique Cardinal, Metis, b-1816, most likely Lac La Biche des Metis (Alberta) daughter, Jacques Cardinal, Metis b-1798 and Josephte Tcikak, b-1780; married September 17, 1832 Red River Joseph Bottineau, b-1810 son Charles Joseph Bottineau, born May 1, 1776, Berthier Enhaut, Quebec and Margaret (aka Marthe Clear Sky) Adik Songab.
(II)-James Curtis Bird (1773-1856) son (I)- James Bird a.k.a. James Curtis and Elizabeth Curtis, married at Cumberland House. Elizabeth Oo-menahomiski is transferred to Carlton House until 1817, when he is made Acting Governor of Rupert's Land until 1818.
Paul Niyawekanis Durand, Metis, b-1796 Rocky Mountain House, aka Poste de la Montagne de Roches, married 1816, Fort Edmonton, (Fort Augustus/Meadows ?) Marie Ahskekahmuahtaht, 2nd marriage 1846 Fort Pitt, Saskatchewan, Kewtchit.
George Donald, Metis b-1816 N.W.T. married to Elizabeth Metis b-1834 N.W.T., living Fort Edmonton 1891.
Nicholas Finlay b-1816 Alberta married Suzette (Josephte) b-1819 Oregon Territory daughter Cayuse and Palouse.
Lesser Slave Lake (Alberta), birth, Baptiste L'Hyrondelle, b-1816, son Jacques L'Hyrondelle (L'Hirondelle) and Josephine Pilon; married, 1845, Lesser Slave Lake (Alberta), Catherine Loyer, Metis, born August, 1828, Jasper House (Alberta), daughter Louis Loyer and 1st wife Jennie Metis, Louis Loyer 2n'd marriage before 1840 Isabelle Gray, Metis (daughter Thomas Gray & Marie Nipissing.
Joseph Vivina, Metis, b-1816, Red River and both his parents were born in Red River which would be about 1796. He married Mary Metis b-1821 N.W.T., living Fort Edmonton 1901.
Pope Pius VIII forbade the use of torture in the tribunals of the inquisition, though it would continue for twenty years. The practice of torture existed for six centuries and eighty Popes, in a line, supported the practice or remained silent.
1817
Pierre Birard is born Fort Carlton son Pierre Birard and Josephine Pincau.
Julia Daniel, Metis b-1817 Athabasca, living Strathcona, (Alberta) 1901.
Francois Decoigne formally of the N.W.C, is master of the HBC Athabasca District at £300.
Jean Baptiste Klyne, b-1817 NWT son Michel Klyne, b-1781, Canada married about 1807, Suzanne Lafrance, Metis, b-1790 North West Territories.
Francois Lemire, Metis, b-1817, Lesser Slave Lake (Alberta) son Pierce Lemire and Marie Blackfoot; married, 1853, Lac Saint Anne (Alberta), Susanne Boucher, Metis, b-1830 Devil Lake (Lac Ste Anne, Alberta) daughter Joseph Boucher and Marguerite Dupuis, Metis b-1802.
John Lee Lewas re-established Fort Waterloo at the east end of Lesser Slave Lake having been destroyed by the NWC.
(II)-William Sinclair, Metis. (1794-1868) who joined HBC in 1810 is posted Fort Waterloo, Lesser Slave Lake (Alberta). He was the son (I)-William Sinclair of Scotland and Margaret Nahoway Cree.
Between 1817-1820 a large number of Metis and Indian settlers of Lesser Slave Lake relocated to Lac La Biche (Alberta).
The North West Company built a trading post at Dog Rump Creek, that flows from Dog Lake in what is called Stony Plain by 1892. The term Stony Plain was an area west of the future Fort Edmonton named after the Stony Indians who resided in the area since the early 1700's.
October 15: John Lee Lewas wintered Red Deers Lake (Lac La Biche, Alberta).
1818
Edouard Berland, Metis, b-1819 son Jean Baptiste Berland and Susanne McLeod Nepissing; married 1836 Lac Ste Anne Genevieve Moignon
Julie Parisien, Metis, b-1818 Fort Edmonton (Alberta), daughter, Jean Baptiste Parisier (Parisien) and Susanne a Stony; married Antoine Houle.
Michel Normand, Metis b-1818 Saskatchewan, baptised 1821 Red River son Michel Normand b-1781 and Francoise Belanger b-1790; married to Rose Laplante b-1825 Red River, living St. Albert, Alberta 1901.
1819
Bella Gauthier, Metis b-1819 N.W.T., living Spruce Grove, Alberta 1901.
Andrew Mowa, Metis b-1819 N.W.T. married about 1860 N.W.T. Isabel Metis b-1833 N.W.T, living Fort Edmonton 1891.
Antoine Savard, Metis b-1819 Alberta, married about 1867 Alberta, Marguerite Metis b-1820 Athabasca. living Alberta 1868, Athabasca 1877, Egg Lake, Alberta 1901.
Josephte (Suzette) Savard, b-1819, Lesser Slave Lake (Alberta) daughter Antoine Savard and Marie Vallee.
Hudson Bay Company records indicate seven North West Company posts on the North Saskatchewan River and three Hudson Bay Company posts, namely, Hudson House, near the forks of the north and south Saskatchewan Rivers, Fort George, to the West, and Fort Augustus in Edmonton. Also recorded at this time are five North West Company posts in British Columbia and four North West Company posts north of Slave Lake. There is no Hudson Bay Company post in these regions.
A measles epidemic hit the Edmonton (Alberta) area this year and next year and wiped out a third of the Blackfoot and Gros-Ventre peoples.
It is believed the Old Fort Augustus and New Edmonton house is occupied this year. It is known that Fort Edmonton was rebuilt this year by the H.B.C. the HBC being absence from this area since the Indian rebellion of 1807.
Three years of currency inflation caused by the federally chartered Second Bank of the United States caused the economy to fall apart.
The Freeman (Metis) of French and Iroquois origin numbered 23 men, 16 women and 58 children are settled at Lesser Slave Lake (Alberta).
December: Colin Robertson at Fort St. Mary recorded that Tete Jaune alias Pierre Bostonais d-1827 had provided him with a map of that country across the Rocky Mountains.
December 25: Fort des Prairies (Edmonton, Alberta), birth Josette (Latour) Montour, married Antoine Bruse, born July 18, 1810 N.W. son Pierre Bruce and Marguerite Durocher.