Jasper Alberta Index
Alberta Basic History
1862
Will Arnault, Metis b-1862 Alberta, married about 1883 likely Athabasca, Justin Metis b-1867 Alberta.
Irenee Arnault, a white man married about 1862 Isabelle Chalifoux dit Labouteille, Metis, b-1847, Lesser Slave Lake (Alberta) daughter Pierre Chalifoux, born March 20, 1806, Lac Poisson Blanc and Marie Cartier, Metis, born June 1821, Lesser Slave Lake, (Alberta).
Olive Blayonne or Blandion, Metis, b-1862, St. Albert (Alberta), daughter Antoine Blandion, b-1833 and Marie Surprenant, Metis, b-1840; married 1881 St. Albert (Alberta) Xavier Durdocher, b-1862 Carlton, (Saskatchewan).
Madeleine Boucher, Metis, b-1862 Fort McMurray, Athabasca daughter Joseph Boucher and Madeleine; married 1876 Fort McMurray, Athabasca, James Daniel, Metis, b-1858, Red River son Griffith Daniel and Native woman.
Harriet Byers b-1862 Red River, living Calgary, Southern Alberta 1891.
Julie Calahaisen, b-1862, Lesser Slave Lake (Alberta) son William Calahaisen and Sophie Auger; married, September 26, 1877, Lesser Slave Lake (Alberta), Charles Anderson, born October 25, 1848 Red River.
Julien Campion, Metis, b-1862, Lac Ste Anne (Alberta) son William Campion, Metis, b-1837 Lesser Slave Lake (Alberta), and Philomene Chalifoux, b-1834, Lesser Slave Lake (Alberta) married 1881 in the Plains, Marie Swain, born March 19, 1867 daughter John Swain, b-1829 and Louise (Elise) Laverdure, born October 12, 1830 N.W.
Julien Cardinal, Metis b-1862 Alberta married about 1894, Alberta, Victoria Metis b-1873 Athabasca, living Lac La Biche, Alberta 1901.
Arsene Cardinal, b-1862, Birch Lake (Alberta), daughter, Gabriel Cardinal dit Labatoche, b-1835 and Marie Bruneau, b-1837.
Pelagie Cardinal, b-1862, Lac La Biche (Alberta) daughter Jean Baptiste Laventure Cardinal, b-1830 and Josephte Peis-check dir Gladu Chpukpux, b-1830; married 1880 Lac La Biche (Alberta) Francois Decoine, b-1858, Lac La Biche (Alberta).
Jean Chamberland, Metis b-1862 Alberta married about 1883 Alberta Sarah Metis b-1862 Alberta living St. Albert, Alberta 1901.
Benoit Gladu, Metis b-1862 Alberta married about 1883 Alberta most likely Lac Ste Anne, Josephine, Metis b-1873 Athabasca, living Lac Ste Anne 1901.
James (Jacques) Gladu, b-1862, Fort Edmonton (Alberta) son Joseph Gladu and Emma Amable Belcourt, b-1835; married Anne Oiche, born March 15, 1869, Fort Edmonton (Alberta) daughter Samuel Piche Mamenawata and Anne Arcand Mahegan.
George Houk b-1845 U.S.A. married to Victoria Metis b-1862 Alberta, living at Coal Banks (Lethbridge, Alberta) in 1901.
Alexandre Johnson, b-1862 Lac La Biche (Alberta) son Charles Johnson, b-1829, Red River and Lizette Bruneau; married 1882 Lac La Biche (Alberta) Melaine Lavallee, born September 28, 1862, Athabasca District daughter Louis or Martin Lavallee, b-1840 Red River and Catherine Lesperance, born November 5, 1846.
Millince Johnson, Metis b-1862 Athabasca married about 1893 living Lac La Biche, Alberta 1901.
Nancy Johnstone, Metis b-1862 N.W.T., living Medicine Hat, Southern Alberta 1891.
Father Albert Lacombe (1827-1916) organized the Metis settlers to build the first bridge west of the great lakes crossing the Sturgeon River, collecting a toll, except on Sundays. This is not entirely true as the Mountain Cree built the first bridge in the west about 1840 on the Cree Trail to Fort Edmonton and later upgraded it for cart use.
Susie Laframboise, Metis b-1862 N.W.T., likely daughter James Laframboise b-1826 N.W.T., living Medicine Hat, Southern Alberta 1891.
Bernard Letendre, Metis b-1862 Alberta, living Lac Ste Anne 1901.
John Munroe, b-1862, Lac Ste Anne, son John William Munroe, Metis b-1831 and Isabelle Lussier aka Isabelle Francois; married, 1884, Fort Macleod, Elizabeth Ann Whitford, born August 13, 1865, Victoria Metis Settlement, (Alberta) located 90 km NE Fort Edmonton, (Alberta), on the North Saskatchewan River.
Joseph Noron b-1861 Red River married about 1886 Alberta Elizabeth Janeetis b-1862 Athabasca, living Lakeland, Alberta 1891.
Blanc Babt Poisson, Metis b-1862 Alberta married about 1895 Duhamel, Alberta Isabelle Metis b-1862 Alberta.
Rosalie Attekamek poisson-blanc, b-1862, Victoria (Alberta) daughter Victor Attekamek Poisson-Blanc, Metis, b-1820 Fort Edmonton (Alberta) and Catherine Durand aka Dumont, b-1823, Mountain Fort; married 1879, Peace hills, Gilbert aka Basil Kowiston (Petitcoteau or Thomas), b-1855, Fort Ellice (Manitoba).
Andre Rushell, Metis b-1862 likely the son Anglie Rushell b-1830 Alberta; married about 1861 Alberta most likely Trail Creek, Magdelaine, Metis b-1866 Alberta living Trail Creek, Alberta 1901.
Jonas Ward, Metis, b-1862, St. Albert, (Alberta) son, Peter Ward, Metis, b-1840 and Rosalie Bisson, b-1843.
An American Fur Company, which folded in 1865, sent an expedition into the Fort Whoop-Up area prospecting for gold.
Father Lacombe (1827-1916) built a bridge across the Sturgeon River near St. Albert aka Big Lake.
Where the western arm of Slave Lake tapers into the beginning of the Mackenzie River on its north bank is Providence. This is a Roman Catholic Mission established this year.
Archibald Thompson was impressed with Edmonton, commenting that they lived on pemmican and potatoes but that there are some pretty girls here. Saint Albert and Lac Saint Anne are still highly dependent on the buffalo hunt for survival. Hunniford of St. Catherine's, however, thought it was a dirty establishment. A pregnant Mrs. Schubert and her three children were in the party. About twenty five of the McMicking party remained at Fort Edmonton to wash for gold. The rest went on to British Columbia but few ended up mining for gold. Andre Cardinal b-1829 Jasper House, Metis, was a guide for the McMicking party of 1862. Others in the party were Isaac Brock McQueen b-1830 Brockville who married Susan Grant, Metis; Donald Matheson, b-May 22, 1835 Red River married before 1871 Christina Sutherland b-April 29, 1845; John Whiteford baptised May 23, 1824, Metis Red River; Robert Harkness, Irish/Iroquois, Metis b-1833 of Dundas, North West Territories who married June 25, 1856 Sabrina Wood.
The 'Gold Rush Folks' say hiring a guide at Fort Edmonton was as difficult as finding a woman in a Gold-rush Camp. A party of six prospectors finally engaged Jean Baptiste Gabriel, an Assiniboine Metis, as their guide.
Some of those 'Gold Rush Folks' who remained at Fort Edmonton are:Robert Burns (1843-1915); John Atkinson of Red River; Sam Ballantye, Metis guide, Thomas Dunn (but moved on in 1863); George Fleet Jr. b-1823 Red River, Metis (married Mary Rose November 26, 1840) & returned Red River 1866; George Gunn of Red River; Erastuc C. Hall b-1839 died September 4, 1862 St. Albert aka Big Lake; Henry (Harry) Hamilton of Toronto; Hector McBeath of Red River; John W. McLean (arrived February 3, 1863); Christina Sutherland b-April 29, 1845; Felix Monroe, Metis of Lac Ste Anne.
'Gold Rush Folks' A. H. (B.H.) Hutchinson, James Kelso b-1834, Samuel Kyse b-1823 and John Malcolm, died July 14, 1913, Barkerville, B.C. but wintered at Fort Edmonton, departing in 1863 for the Cariboo, B.C.. While here they sluiced the Saskatchewan River.
William J. Christie b-1825, Chief Factor at Fort Edmonton, was unhappy with the cheek of two servants at the H.B.C. who quit their 4 year contracts and went back east, likely as a result of talking to the 'Gold Rush Folks'. Henry Moberly of Jasper House quit H.B.C. to prospect for gold.
Hospice St. Joseph, the first residential school in Alberta opens at Lac La Biche.
One count of the newly named St. Albert boasted 20 Metis cabins in the immediate settlement. A bridge was built over the Sturgeon River and a crude grist mill was built to grind flower. Also built was a convent for the Gray Nuns.
It is believed Rev. George Millard McDougall move his small mission from Smoky Lake to the Victoria Metis Settlement Crossing (Alberta) as this was a common camping place of the Cree. Victoria is south of Smoky Lake on the North Saskatchewan River. The mission settlement (1862-1918) was dissolved and the people moved to Smoky Lake when the railway bypassed the community.
January: Battle River Settlement (Alberta) birth Agathe Cardinal, Metis, died 1874, Saddle Lake, Saskatchewan, daughter Jacques Cardinal, b-1836 Big Lake (St. Albert, Alberta) and Marie Catherine Cardinal b-1800 Fort Edmonton.
June: The McMicking Expedition, consisting of 150 people with 97 Red River carts, left Fort Garry for Fort Edmonton. The part led by Thomas and Robert McKicking (McMicking) arrived at Fort Edmonton on July 21. They traded their Red River carts for pack horses and crossed the mountains to the Fraser River with the help of Native guides. They rafted down the Frazer to Fort George (Prince George), losing 6 men to the river. Most went on to the Cariboo (Caribou) Goldfields. Others went on to Kamloops (Cumeloups meaning the meeting of the waters), arriving in October. The only known woman was Catherine O'Hare Schubert with her 3 children. She gave birth to her 4th shortly after arriving at Kamloops. It is noteworthy that about 250 would-be prospectors passed through Fort Edmonton this year on their way to the gold fields.
July 21: Fort Edmonton was described as a trash heap with no military orderliness, and a place in which the people were starving because of the scarcity of buffalo, or so reported the 'Gold Rush Folks'. It was noted that Brazeau, Rev Woolsey (1834-1911), Alexander and Thomas Clover resided at Fort Edmonton. It was recorded that Joseph E. Brazeau is living with an Indian Woman although he has a wife in the southern states.
In September Father Lacombe (1827-1916) opened the first school in Alberta at Fort Edmonton with twenty pupils. Brother Scollen is the first teacher at Saint Albert, that became a diocese this year. Reverend's George and John McDougall established the Victoria Mission near Victoria Metis Settlement (Alberta), seventy miles down river from Fort Edmonton (Alberta). William Gladstone built the Smokey Lake Mission for Reverend Thomas Woolsey (1834-1911).
September: Smoky Lake, the Reverend George McDougall and his son, arrived to chose a location for a mission. He would call this mission Victoria aka Victoria Metis Settlement which was located 90 km NE Fort Edmonton (Alberta). He then with 2 Indian guides traveled to Norway House to collect his family. As reported by (II)-William Gladstone, born after 1832 Montreal.
September 6: Jean Baptiste Gabriel, an Assiniboine Metis guide, deserted his 'Gold Rush Party' of six men, west of Calgary, stealing two of their horses. The Indians offered to guide them through to the mountain passes
September 26: St. Albert (Alberta), birth, Jonas Ward, Metis son, Peter Ward, Metis, b-1840 and Rosalie Bisson, b-1843; married about 1887 likely Clover Bar, Magaline Metis b-1866 Alberta.
November: Jean L'Heureux who was living among the Blackfoot since 1860 arrived Fort Edmonton with a wounded United States miner.
November 24: St. Albert aka Big Lake, marriage Edouard Beaudry, Metis, son Joseph Beaudry Jr., b-1809, and Louise Ladouceur, Metis b-1820, Lac La Biche (Alberta), died 1906; married Rosalie Dumont, Metis born December, 1844 daughter Gabriel Dumont, Metis (1795-1801) and Suzanne Lussier, Metis.
December: J.E. Brazeau, a fort trader, visited the Blackfoot camp to facilitate peace talks with the Cree at Fort Edmonton.
1863
Job Bird, Metis b-1863 Alberta married about 1895 Alberta Mary Metis b-1873 Alberta living Whitefish Lake, Alberta 1901.
John Borwick, Metis b-1863 Alberta, married about 1894 Alberta Elizabeth Metis b-1866 Alberta, living Whitford, Alberta 1901.
Elizabeth (Isabelle) Bruneau, b-1847, Buffalo Lake (Alberta), daughter Michel Joachim Bruneau, b-1806 and Marie Catherine LaDouceur, b-1810; married 1863, Lac La Biche (Alberta) Patrick Pruden, Metis, born January 17, 1842 son Arthur Pruden, Metis (1820-1881) and Charlotte Small.
Clement Cardinal, b-1863, Lac La Biche (Alberta) son John Aubichon Cardinal, b-1826, Lac La Biche (Alberta), and Cecite Labonne, b-1839, Lac Poisson Blanc; married, 1880, Dunvegan, Athabasca (Alberta), Josephine Richards, Metis, b-1866, Jasper House (Alberta), daughter James Richards, Metis, b-1834, Moose Factory, N.W. and Madelaine Nipissing born December 1848, Lac La Nun (Alberta).
Christiana Clare, Metis b-1863 Alberta married 1888 Alberta living U.S.A. 1890 to 1895, living Fort MacLeod, Alberta 1901.
Rose Wabamun Desjarlais, Metis, b-1863 Lac Ste Anne (Alberta), died 1870 Lac Ste Anne (Alberta) daughter Antoine Wabamun Desjarlais, Metis b-1820 Lesser Slave Lake (Alberta) and Marie Julie Catherine Kakatow a Cree;
Joseph Donald, Metis b-1863 Alberta married about 1891 likely Colchester, Marais Metis b-1874 Alberta.
Paskel Dumont, Metis b-1863 Alberta married about 1885 Alberta Jutches Metis b-1868 Alberta, living New Norway, Alberta 1901.
Eloise Favre, Metis b-1863 Alberta married about 1880 Alberta, living Lethbridge, Alberta 1901.
Frank Grayham, Metis b-1863 Alberta, married about 1887 most likely Trail Creek Anne H., Metis b-1871 Alberta.
Joseph Jacknife, Metis b-1863 Alberta, 1st married about 1871, 2nd married about 1895 Alberta most likely Trail Creek Vavien (Vaviene), Metis b-1873 Alberta, living Trail Creek, Alberta 1901..
Jacques (James) Laderoute, Metis b-1863 St. Albert (Alberta), son Oliver Laderoute, b-1806, Montreal, died March 23, 1876, St. Albert (Alberta) and Angelique dit Brabant Maskegan; married about 1886 Alberta, Emilienne Berland, Metis, b-1873, Lac Ste Anne (Alberta), daughter Edouard Berland, Metis, b-1819 and Genevieve Moigon, living St. Pierre, (Alberta), 1901.
Victor Lawrence, Metis b-1863 Alberta married about 1888 Alberta Catherine Metis b-1865 Alberta living St. Albert, Alberta 1901.
Marie Morin born 1863 Fort Edmonton daughter Jean Baptiste Morin and Marie Crise. Marie married at Fort Edmonton 1882 to LaBelle and claimed to live at the Fort from 1863 to 1882.
Joseph Nipissing or Shawan, b-1863, Lac Ste Anne (Alberta) son Thomas Shawan Nepissing, b-1818 and Rosaire Gladu; married 1894, Battle River Settlement (Alberta) Esquasis Ka-say-too.
Rose Powell b-1863 Red River, living Calgary, Alberta 1891.
W. Powell b-1863 Red River, living Calgary, Alberta 1891.
Lac La Biche, marriage, Patrick Pruden Sr., born January 17, 1842 and Elizabeth (Isabelle) Bruneau, b-1847 Buffalo Lake
F. Robinson, Metis b-1863 N.W.T. a freighter married to Madeline Metis b-1869 N.W.T. living Battle River, Alberta 1891.
Delphis Rowland, Metis b-1863 Alberta son John Rowland b-1834 and Sophie b-1841; married about 1884 Alberta Liza Metis b-1864 Alberta living St. Albert, Alberta 1901.
John Rodway b-1863 Red River, a lumberman, living Coal Mine, Albertra 1891.
John Rushell, Metis born 1863 Alberta likely the son Angelie Rushell b-1830 Alberta; married about 1900 Alberta, living Trail Creek, Alberta 1901.
Abraham Salois of Fort Edmonton went after some Stonies who stole the goods from a Blackfoot family. He recovered all the goods except a gun.
Elizabeth Savard, b-1863, Fort Edmonton (Alberta), daughter Antoine Savard, b-1825 and Marguerite Bisson, b-1831; married 1884,
Johnny Delaronde, born October 15, 1855 son Paul Delaronde, b-1832, Marguerite Sinclair, b-1836.
Rodway John Stone b-1863 Red River, Living Calgary, Alberta 1891.
Adam (Ignace) Waniyanade, b-1863, Jasper House (Alberta), son Louis Ignace Waniyande, b-1825, Jasper House (Alberta) and Lisette Courteoreille, b-1829 N.W.; married, 1878, Lac Ste Anne, Martine Gladu, Metis, b-1866, Lac Ste Anne, daughter Jean Baptiste Glaud, b-1807 and Sophie Collin, Metis b-1815 Jasper House (Alberta).
Benjamin Whitford, Metis, born September, 1863 between Whitefish Lake and Victoria Metis Settlement, (Alberta), located 90 km NE Fort Edmonton, son Peter Whitford Jr. born September 27, 1836 and Nancy a Native Woman; married September 6, 1881, Dunvegan, Athabasca, Elise Anehay, born March 1863, Grande Prairie, daughter Ahnehay a Beaver Native and Marie Sandawaywetum.
Dr. Cheadle and Viscount Milton passed through Fort Edmonton enroute to the Cariboo Gold Fields.
Milton and Cheadle noted the lowness of the Yellowhead Pass. It is noteworthy that Yellowhead Lake was previously called Cowdung Lake or Buffalo-Dung Lake.
Rev. George Millward McDougall reported 100's of Indian were camped at Victoria (Alberta) crossing on the North Saskatchewan River.
Forbes and Charles Vernon with Captain Houghton acquired 14,000 acres as a military land grant near Vernon, B.C.
The first notation of a medical record is made at Fort Edmonton (Alberta).
March: The nuns moved from Lac Ste Ann aka Devils Lake to St. Albert aka Big Lake. The Metis began building a horse-drawn mill. This did not work very well and was replaced by a water driven mill that functioned very well.
May: Father Caer, who seems to lack some of the qualities necessary for the priesthood, complained that Father Lacombe was seeing members of the opposite sex too frequently and for no good reason; especially the nuns and girls in the kitchen. Brother Scollen reported that the devious-minded Father Caer is the one playing the role of which he accused his colleague.
May 14: Viscount Milton, Doctor Cheadle, and a Metis guide named Assiniboine along with his wife and thirteen year old son, arrived at Fort Edmonton. They also visited the Metis settlement at Devils Lake (Lac Ste Anne). They are on their way to the Pacific.
August 7: St. Albert (Alberta), birth Elisabeth Beaudry, died November 24, 1899 Means (Alberta) married January 6, 1879, St. Albert (Alberta) Jean Baptiste L'Hirondelle son Jean Baptiste L'Hirondelle and Catherine Loyer.
September 21: Lac La Biche (Alberta), birth, Christine Gladu, daughter Francois Gladu, born March 20, 1841 and Catherine Hope, b-1843, Lac La Biche, (Alberta); married 1879 Fort Edmonton (Alberta), John Lightning.
November 30: Lac La Biche (Alberta), birth Marcelline Cardinal, Metis, daughter St Luc Cardinal, Metis, b-1836 and Marguerite Desjarlais b-1839.
December 31: Lac La Biche (Alberta), birth Peter Pambrun, son Pierre Chrysologue Pambrun, born August 1824, Lesser Slave Lake and Elizabeth Quintal, b-1833, Lac La Biche (Alberta); married Marie Rose Schmidt, born September 26, 1873, Victoria (Alberta) daughter Alfred Rabasca dit Schmidt, b-1825, Slave Lake, d-1901 and Emilie Vivier, b-1849, Fort Pitt (Saskatchewan).