Jasper Alberta Index
Alberta Basic History
1823
John Bussette, b-1823, in the Rocky Mountains west of Calgary, Alberta.
Charlotte (Katrine) Gladu, Metis, b-1823, Lesser Slave Lake (Alberta) daughter Francois Gladu, Metis and Marie Onahogeesigo; married 1845, Lesser Slave Lake (Alberta), Pierre Montagnais a Chippewyan.
William Gonon, Orkney Island b-1823 married to Sara Metis b-1833 Red River living Alberta 1868, living Lakeland, eastern Alberta 1891.
J.M. McLeod of HBC entered the Nahanni Valley to determine the fur potential and concluded they were not good.
Pierre Chrysologue Pambruin, born December 19, 1792, Quebec married 1823, Lesser Slave Lake; married 1854 Lac La Biche (Alberta) Catherine (Kittt) Humphreyville, Metis, b-1805 daughter Thomas Hunphreyville Sr., and 1st married 1804 Ann a Native, 2nd marriage 1814 NWT Hannak (Anna) Turner.
Charlotte (Katrine) Gladu, Metis, b-1823, Lesser Slave Lake (Alberta), daughter Francois Gladu, Metis and Marie Onahugeesigo, Metis; married 1845, Lesser Slave Lake (Alberta), Pierre Montagnais a Chippewyn.
James Pruden, Metis b-1823 Alberta married likely Beaver Lake region Genievia Metis b-1827 Alberta.
Abraham Salois, Metis b-1823 Alberta married about 1873 likely Duhamel, Alberta Susanna Metis b-1814, Alberta
The Beaver under command of Pouce Coupe (Cut thumb) attacked the Fort commanded by James Hughes killing him and his men and burned the for for failure to trade. Jean Baptiste Lefleur and another French employee returned from hunting to discover the remains. The Beaver provided these two survivors with a canoe and dried meat and saw they safely down to Fort Dunvegan. About this time the Sickannies, a branch of the Beaver, destroyed Fort Nelson 300 miles to the N.W., killing Alexander Henry and all his men.
Having failed at Chesterfield house, John Rowand (1787-1854) is assigned Chief Factor to the well-established Fort Augustus; that was renamed Fort Edmonton. He arrived this year with his Indian wife, Louis Umphreville, and Metis children. Fort Augustus, at this time, was producing York boats and bags of pemmican for the fur trade. They traded with the Assiniboine, Cree, Blackfoot, Sarcee, Gros-Ventre, Piegan and Blood. Christmas dinner at Fort Edmonton usually featured unborn buffalo, removed from the cow and boiled whole. The Parkland Assiniboine, Cree and Metis, near Fort Edmonton, numbered 20 tents, and the Strong Wood Assiniboine numbered 40 tents. This is interesting in that Metis are not usually noted separate from the Indians, although they often traveled with them.
The H.B.C. built Fort Assiniboine (Barrhead, Alberta).
January 11: The balance of the Bow River Expedition, including Harriott, arrived Edmonton House in a sorry state.
October 1: Lesser Slave Lake (Alberta), birth, Michel Callio, Metis, died April 6, 1911, son Louis Kwarakwentha Callihoo L'Iroquoise, b-1782, Chaughawaga, Montreal and Mare Tekanise Patenaude, Metis, of the Sekanaise tribe of the Montagnais nation, (1803-1854); married April 20, 1846, Fort Edmonton (Alberta), Marie Savard (1828-1869), daughter Antoine Savard and Marianne Vallee.
November 15: Saskatchewan Valley, birth Elizabeth Betsey Fisher, daughter Henry Fisher, b-1800 and Marguerite Laframboise; married, Louis Bousequet, b-1823 son Louis Bousequet and Marie Vallee.
November 28: Alberta, birth, Joseph Belcourt son Joseph Belcourt d-1863 and Catherine L'Hyrondelle, b-1793, Lesser Slave Lake (Alberta); married, February 23, 1846, Fort des Prairies (Edmonton, Alberta), Madeleine Sapin dit Campion daughter Joseph Sapin dit Campion, b-1797 and Marie Nepissing, b-1810.
1824
Antoine Blandion 1st married 1835 Big Lake (St. Albert, Alberta) Catherine Berland; 2nd marriage 1939, Lac Ste Anne (Alberta) Marie Desjarlais, b-1824, Lac La Biche (Alberta).
Francois Boucher Jr. b-1824 married most likely McKenzie River 1868/69 Elizabeth Native.
Francois Payasis Desjarlais, b-1824 Beaver River, son Joseph Desjarlais and Josephte Suzette Cardinal, b-1800, Lac La Biche des Metis; married 1844 Lac La Biche des Metis (Alberta) Euplrosine Auger Metis, b-1828 Lesser Slave Lake (Alberta) daughter Antoine Augustin Auger and Marie Nippissing.
Charles Johnson, Metis b-1824 Hudson Bay married about 1869 Alberta Agathe Metis b-1846 Peace River living Alberta 1870, living Lakeland eastern Alberta 1891.
John Rowand (1787-1854) entered into an agreement with Cardinal and Freeman to make a road, or horse track, from Fort Assiniboine House to Edmonton, a seventy mile portage. This, he hoped, would ensure that the Saskatchewan would remain the major highway and would ensure the position of Fort Edmonton as the gateway to the north.
August 27: Lesser Slave Lake, birth, Pierre Chrysologue Pambruin Jr.; married 1854 Lac La Biche (Alberta) Elizabeth Quintel, b-1833 Lac La Biche des Metis (Alberta)
1825
Marie Anelia b-1825 Alberta, 1901 census says mother to Agustus Anelia b-1873 Alberta but must be grandmother.
Augustin Auger, Metis, b-1825, Lesser Slave Lake (Alberta) son Antoine Augustin Auger and Marie Nippissing; 1st married 1848, Fort Edmonton, (Alberta), Rosalie Labonne; 2nd marriage, 1861, Fort Edmonton, (Alberta), Sylvie Bruneau, b-1845, Lac La Biche (Alberta), daughter Michel Joachim Bruneau b-1806 and Marie Catherine Ladouceur, b-1810.
Pierre Bostonais, d-1827, aka Tete Jaune, a yellow haired Iroquois Metis guided a party over the Rocky mountains to Tete Jaune's Cache, B.C.
Jean Baptiste Letendre dit Batoche aka Okimawaskawikinam b-1762, Quebec is at Rocky Mountain House, aka Poste de la Montagne de Roches.
Eustache Bernard, b-1829, Fort Edmonton son Louis Berard, b-1796 and Catherine Hughes; 2nd married, 1854 Red River Marguerite Primeau, b-1836 Fort Alexander, NWT daughter Joseph Primeau (1785-1875) married 1824, Josephte Dion and 1st marriage 1836, Marguerite Bethsy Stevenson, Metis, b-1807 York Factory, died 1901.
Joseph Beaudry (Beaudrie) a.k.a. Old Goudrie, a former North West Company man and HBC man, is working Fort Carlton as a freeman until 1828, and ran an outfit until 1846 when he retired to Red River where he died December 29, 1863 . His wife is named Karorwaste.
Lac La Biche des Metis (Alberta) birth Michel Cardinal, Metis, b-1825 son Antoine Cardinal, Metis, b-1795 and Marie (Godin) Demontigny Comptois b-1795, Marie epouse 1815 B.C. Peter Hogden; married 1849, White Fish Lake, Athabasca, Catherine Pakakoos, b-1828 daughter Antoine Sakapwan Kamaspwapasuy.
Pierre Cardinal dit Tiblay, Metis, b-1825, Lac La Biche des Metis (Alberta), son Joseph Cardinal, Metis, (1794-1854) and Lizette Maskegan (others suggest son Joseph Cardinal, b-1756 Wuebec and Rose Cree); married 1849 White Fish Lake, Athabasca, Catherine Pakakoos b-1828 daughter Antoine Sakapwan and Kamaspwapasuy, 2nd marriage 1882 Peace Hills, Isabelle Durand, Metis, b-1846, Fort Edmonton (Alberta) daughter Paul Niyawekanis Durand and Susanne Kewtchit..
Francois Dumont Metis, b-1825, Fort Edmonton, son Gabriel Dumont, Metis, b-195/1801 and Suzanne Lusser, Metis; married 1859 Lac Ste Anne, Nancy Gladu, Metis, b-1834, Lesser Slave Lake daughter Charles Gladu, b-1810 and Therese Gray, Metis, b-1813, Lesser Slave Lake (Alberta).
Charles Gladu, b-1810, Devil Lake (Lac Ste Anne, Alberta) son Francois Gladu, born December 25, 1763, married, about 1797, N.W.T., Josephte Chartrand, b-1773; married 1825, Devil Lake (Lac Ste Anne Alberta), Therese Gray, Metis, b-1813, Lesser Slave Lake, daughter Thomas Gray and Marie Nipissing.
Pierre L'Hyrondelle, b-1825, Lesser Slave Lake (Alberta) son Jacques L'Hyrondelle and Josephte Pilon; married 1850 Lac Ste Anne (Alberta), Marguerite Boucher, Metis, daughter Joseph Boucher and Marguerite Dupuis, Metis, b-1802.
Lesser Slave Lake (Alberta), birth, Pierre L'Hyrondelle, son, Jacques L'Hyrondelle (L'Hirondelle) and Josephine Pilon; married 1850, Lac Ste Anne (Alberta), Marguerite Boucher, Metis, daughter Joseph Boucher and Marguerite Dupus, Metis, b-1802 daughter Jean Baptiste Dupus and Marie Native.
Fort Edmonton, birth Genevieve Picard, Metis, b-1825, Fort Edmonton (Alberta) daughter Joseph Picard, died February 22, 1850 Pembina, North Dakota and Lalouise Metis; married 1842 (IV)-Joseph Cadotte, Metis, b-1813 son Laurent Cadotte, born February 8, 1766, Bastican, Quebec and Suzanne Mackegone Cree.
L. Robeson b-1825 Red River, a horseman, living Calgary, Alberta 1891.
John Rowand (1787-1854) became Chief Factor at Fort Edmonton and a member of the council of Rupertsland a few years later.
Alfred Rabasca dit Schmidt, Metis, b-1825, Slave Lake, died 1901, son Peter Rabasca dit Schmidt and Marie Ann Cree.
Antoine Savard, b-1825, Fort Edmonton (Alberta) son Antoine Savard and Marianne Vallee; married, 1849, Marguerite Bisson, b-1831, Slave Lake, daughter Jean Baptiste Bisson and Rosalie Simon.
Francois Villeneuve, b-1825, married September 12, 1842, Fort des Prairies, (Edmonton,Alberta) Helene Vallee, b-1828 daughter Antoine Vallee and Susanne Lefibvre.
Louis Ignace Waniyande, b-1825, Jasper House, died March,1874, son Louis Ignace Naniyande Sr. and Marie Walker; married Lisette Courteoeille, b-1829, N.W.T.
Edmonton is producing barley and potatoes; but spring and fall frosts spoiled the wheat crop.