Jasper Alberta Index
Alberta Basic History
1839
Marguerite Beaudry, b-1839 (Alberta) daughter Joseph Nabestiwayan Beaudry (1809-1881) and Louise Ladouceur b-1820; married May 25, 1857, Fort des Prairie (Edmonton, Alberta) Ignance Iroquois Gaucher Callihoo son Louis Kwanakwante Kollion Iroquois and Mary Katis Lesekanaise.
Jerome Cardinal, b-1839, Victoria (Alberta) son Laurent Cardinal (1819-1853) and Marie Moignon, b-1822, egg Lake (Alberta); married 1859, Lac La biche (Alberta) Josephte Desjarlais, b-1843 between Red River and Qu'appelle.
John Cardinal, Metis, b-1839, Victoria (Alberta) son Pierre Cardinal, b-1810-17 and Marguerite a native; married 1866, Lac La Biche (Alberta), Angele Desjarlais, b-1846, Lac La Biche (Alberta), Francois Pa-ya-sis Desjarlais, b-1824, Beaver River and Euphrosine Auger, b-1828, Lesser Slave Lake (Alberta).
Andre Comtois, married 1839 Slave Lake (Alberta) Marie (Quenneville) Saulteuse. see 1777?
Victoria Metis Settlement, (Alberta), located 90 km NE Fort Edmonton, birth Alexis Courteoreille, Metis son Alexander (Alexis) Courteorville and Lalouise Ahchakee a native; married, 1857, Lac La Biche (Alberta), Angelique Kesquaypayees.
Francois Decoine Sr., married 1839, Lac La Biche des Metis (Alberta) and Josephte Desjarlais, Metis, b-1820.
Constance Gladu, b-1839, Wabascow Lake, Athabasca son Andre Gladu and Catherine Auger; 1st married 1855, Opaskium; 2nd marriage 1872, Richard Kaskawan a native.
Louis Piochon, b-1839 Red River married about 1873 Athabasca Margaret Metis b-1847 N.W.T., living Lac La Biche, (Alberta) 1901.
1840
Devil lake aka Lac Ste Anne (Alberta), birth Jean Baptiste Beaudry, d-1870 son Joseph Beaudry , b-1809 and Louise Ladouceur (1820-1906); married 1868, Nancy Leveille, Metis, born March 4, 1844 Red River, died 1868 daughter Pierre Leveille, b-1783 and Julie MacKenzie, Metis, b-1805, Inuit Metis.
Noel Beaudry, b-1840 Lac Ste Anne, (Alberta), daughter, Joseph Nabestiwayan Beaudry (1809-1881) and Louise Ladouceur b-1820.
Archange Belcourt, b-1840, Lesser Slave Lake (Alberta) daughter Joseph Belcourt, b-1863 and Catherine L'Hyrondelle, b-1793 Lesser Slave Lake, (Alberta); married 1857 Lac Ste Anne (Alberta) Jean Baptiste Short, Metis, b-1834 Red River, died February 27, 1874 son James (Jacques) Short, Metis B-1810 and Marie Charlotte Gladu, b-1806, died August 17, 1847 Red River.
Marie Boucher, Metis, born 1840, Devil Lake (Lac St. Anne, Alberta), died October 9, 1870 St. Albert (Alberta), daughter Joseph Boucher and Marguerite Arcand (Dupas?) Metis, b-1802 and she married 1858 Fort Edmonton a DeFroneut, others suggest she married Louis Gregoire, born April 1, 1826, Quebec. This is fairly representative of the movement of many Metis in the Fort Edmonton District. Others settled Strathcona, Fort Edmonton, Egg Lake and Lac La Nonne, all in Alberta..
Jasper House, birth Josephte Cardinal, Metis, b-1840 daughter Antoine Cardinal, Metis, b-1795 and Marie (Godin) Demontigny Comptois b-1795, Marie epouse 1815 B.C. Peter Hogden; married 1857 Red River Pierre Nadeau dit La Corde.
John Cardinal, Metis, b-1839, Victoria Metis Settlement, (Alberta) son Pierre Cardinal, Metis, b-1810 and Marguerite a native; married, 1866, Lac La Biche (Alberta), Angela Desjarlais, b-1846, Lac La Biche (Alberta) daughter, Francois Pa-ya-sid Desjarlais, b-1824, Beaver River and Euphrosine Auger, b-1828, Lesser Slave Lake (Alberta).
Louison Cardinal, b-1840, White Fish Lake, Athabasca, son, So-so-wa-pas Cardinal and Susanne Decoine, b-1807, Lesser Slave Lake; married 1864, Lac La Biche (Alberta), Marguerite Larocque, Metis, b-1847, Norway House, daughter Francois Larocque, Metis, born June 7, 1824, Red River and Angelique Sayis aka Sayer, b-1821, Red River.
Isabelle Comtois, Metis, b-1840 Slave Lake (Alberta) daughter Andre Comtois, and Marie (Quenneville) Saulteuse; married Jean Baptiste Robillard, Metis b-1824 son Jean Baptiste Robillard and Marie Rose Antonet Lagemoniere.
Joseph Courteoreille, b-1840, Lesser Slave Lake (Alberta), died 1870, son Laurent Courteoreille and Josephte (Suzette).
Augustin Hamelin "Azure", b-1840, Red River, married Marie Desjarlais, b-1824.
Jimmy Jock (1785-1892) loved to play tricks when acting as interpreter for Reverend Robert Rundle or Father De Smet.
Ferdinand Ladret, Metis b-1840 N.W.T. married about 1896 likely Edmonton, Virginie Metis b-1860 N.W.T., living Edmonton 1901.
Catherine Logan, Metis b-1840 N.W.T., married about 1878, living Edmonton 1901.
Charles Quintal, b-1840, Lac La Biche (Alberta), son Pierre Quintal and Charlotte Ladouceur, b-1814; married 1860, Lac La Biche (Alberta) Euphrosine Cardinal, Metis, b-1843 Victoria (Alberta) daughter Jacques Cardinal Metis, b-1798, Moose Mountain, Fort Pitt and Josephte Teikak b-1780.
Henry Bird Steinhauer, an Ojibwa Indian and Methodist Missionary, entered Alberta and would establish a mission at Whitefish Lake in 1858, among the Woods Cree. Chief Pakan, a Wood Cree, would help build the mission.
Louis Torangeau, Metis b-1840 Alberta married about 1879 Alberta Marie Metis b-1838 Red River living St. Albert, Alberta 1901.
Jean Baptiste Torangeau, Metis b-1840 Alberta married to Nancy Metis b-1850 Alberta living Duhamel, Alberta 1901.
Mary Ward, Metis b-1840 Alberta living Ponoka, Alberta 1901.
Peter Ward, Metis, b-1840, Fort Edmonton, (Alberta) son, George Ward, Metis, b-1810 and Bethsey Turcotte; married July 26, 1858, Big Lake aka St. Albert, (Alberta), Rosalie Bisson, b-1843, Slave Lake, (Alberta), daughter, Jean Baptiste Bisson and Rosalie Simon.
The reverend Robert Terrill Rundle, representing the Wesley Society of London, arrived 1839 or 1840 and centered at Fort Edmonton. His parish extended from Saskatoon (area of wild berry) to Jasper and Banff and to Lesser Slave Lake. Mount Rundle in Banff carries his name. Due to his failing health, he left in 1847. Fort Edmonton consisted mainly of ultra Protestant Orkneymen, who scorned the prayer book services of the English Wesleyans. Piche, a Metis from Fort Edmonton, is reported to have requested that Bishop Provencher of Red River send a priest to Fort Edmonton. More likely, on a trading trip, he had made mention that the Wesleyan Missionary Rundle had set up shop at the Fort, and that it would alarm the Catholics, especially as he was aware that John Rowand (1787-1854) didn't want missionaries in his domain. John Rowand (1787-1854) invited the Gros-Ventre and Blackfoot to stop trading with the United States. The Cree and Saulteaux slaughtered thirty-eight tents containing one hundred men, women and children on their way to Fort Edmonton. Only six Cree and two Saulteaux remained in the place of bloodshed.
The Mountain Cree built the first bridge, west of the great lakes, about this year, on the Cree Trail to Fort Edmonton and later upgraded it for cart use.
February 29: Fort Dunvegan, the Troside and P. Hommes 1st Son arrived from L'Aogle, Neslar and La Malice who are beyond the Bear Lake Mountain. They had done nothing in making Furs owing to starvation.
October 24: Lesser Slave Lake (Alberta), birth Norbert Bellerose, son Oliver Belleorse, b-1814 and Josephte (Suzette) Savard) b-1819; married January 8, 1869, Marie Plante, b-1855, Red River daughter Magloire Plante, b-1829 and Isabelle Lowe, b-1829.
December 27: Fort Edmonton, (Alberta), birth, Louis Cardinal, Metis, son Antoine Cardinal, Metis, b-1795 and Marie (Godin) Demontigny Comptois, b-1795; married, June 1868, Dunvegan, Athabasca (Alberta), Marie Bisson, b-1840, Dunvegan, Athabasca (Alberta), daughter, Louis Bisson and Isabelle Nisandaway. Marie epouse 1815 B.C. Peter Hogden.
1841
Alexander Beaudry, b-1841 (Alberta), died April 27, 1865, St. Albert (Alberta) son Joseph Nabestiwayan Beaudry (1809-1881) and Louise Ladouceur b-1820; married March 29, 1864 St Albert (Alberta), Marie Anne Berland daughter Francois Berland and Therese Karakonti L'Iroquois.
(I)-Reverend James Evans, (1803-1846), a Methodist minister, visited Fort Edmonton (1841-42), converting many natives. He was accompanied by his wife Mary Blythe Smith, daughter and likely Henry Bird Steinhauger. He then went to the Peace and Slave River region.
P. Burns b-1841 Red River, a freighter, living Calgary, Southern Alberta 1891.
Joseph Pepamowew Courteoreille, b-1818, married 1841, Lac La Biche (Alberta), Susanne Desjarlais, b-1822, St. Albert (Alberta).
Adam Darling b-1841 Red River, a freighter, living Calgary, Southern Alberta 1891
Isabelle Durand, Metis, b-1841 Fort Edmonton daughter Paul Niyawekanis Durand, Metis, b-1796 Rocky Mountain House, aka Poste de la Montagne de Roches, married 1816, Fort Edmonton, Marie Ahskekahmuahtaht, 2nd marriage 1846 Fort Pitt, Saskatchewan, Kewtchit.
Margaret Favel Metis b-1841 Alberta, living Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta 1901.
Marguerite Fosseneuve, b-1841, Athabasca District (Alberta) daughter Jean Baptiste alias Lacroche Villeneude or Fosseneuve, b-1815 and Julie Morand, b-1811; 1st married January 11, 1859 Red River, Antoine Gonneville (1832-1864); 2nd married 1873, Lac La Biche (Alberta), Paul Decoine, b-1838, Lac La Biche (Alberta), died 1876, Fort Vermillion (Alberta); 3rd married, 1876, Lac La Biche, Louison Frederick, b-1846 Red River.
Frapp is killed near Green River, in the Rocky Mountains.
John Fraser, Metis b-1841 Alberta, married about 1873 likely Edmonton, Sarah b-1847 Red River, living Edmonton 1901.
Frank Gladue, Metis b-1841 N.W.T. married to Catherine A., Metis b-1844 Alberta, living Fort MacLeod, Alberta 1901.
William Labracon b-1841 Red River living Pretty Hill, Alberta 1901.
Maggie Lafontaine, Metis b-1840/41 N.W.T. living Medicine Hat, Southern Alberta 1891.
Alexis Piche a Metis of Devils Lake (Lac St. Anne, Alberta) traveled to Red River to ask for a priest for the Metis Community.
Reverend R. T. Rundle, June 1841 camped at the foot of Cascade Mountain, Banff, climbed it, and later visited the Bow Falls.
Mary Samett, Metis b-1841 Alberta, visiting Ponoka 1901.
Marshal Tremblay, Metis b-1841 Athabasca married about 1881 Alberta Sophia Metis b-1845 Alberta living Lac La Biche, (Alberta) 1901.
Louie Whitebear, Metis b-1841 N.W.T. married about 1884 N.W.T. Nancy Metis b-1845 N.W.T. living Pretty Hill, Alberta 1901.
John Whitford b-1841 Red River, living Assiniboia West 1891. Assiniboia West likely refers to southern Alberta or south western Saskatchewan at this time.
David P. Wishart b-1841 Red River, living Southern Alberta 1891.
Simpson, Peyton, Rodgers, and Amos E. Erye are at Fort Bridger.
Governor (I)-George Simpson (1787-1860) met John Rowand (1787-1854) in Fort Garry and, on July 3, started back to Fort Edmonton. The party had thirty horses and one light cart. They planned to change horses at Fort Ellice, Carton and Pitt, along the Carlton or Edmonton trail. The trip took twenty-two days. This appears to be the earliest reported use of the Red River cart between Fort Edmonton and Fort Carlton and Red River. It is most like he had Metis guides who showed him the way.
Governor (I)-George Simpson (1787-1860) provided an estimate of the number of people residing in the Saskatchewan District of which Fort Edmonton was the center. His estimate is as follows:
- Assiniboines -- 4,060
- Crees -- 3,500
- Piegans -- 2,450
- Blackfoot -- 2,100
- Gros Ventrers -- 2,100
- Blood -- 1,750
- Sarcees -- 350
- Metis -- 280
- Saulteaux -- 140
Total -- 16,730
The estimates are based on number of tents and assumed 7 people per tent.
October: (I)-Francis Butcher b-1810 replaced Colin Campbell b-1787 at Fort Dunvegan. Butcher entered service with the H.B.C. in 1833 and was posted Fort Chipewyan 1834-1841.
December 14: (I)-Rev. James Evans, (1803-1846), a Methodist missionary and his party arrived Fort Dunvegan.