Jasper Alberta Index
Alberta Basic History
1872
White Mud River (Peace River Country), marriage Moise Adam, Metis, b-1849, Red River son Baptiste Adam, Metis, b-1820 and Marie Boyer, Metis, b-1825; married Marie Leveille Otikanang (nee Charlot), b-1851 daughter Charlot and Besonne Clairmont.
John Anderson, Metis b-1872 Alberta married to Marie L. Metis b-1872 Alberta living Lac Ste Anne, Alberta 1901.
Moise Auger, Metis, b-1872, Trout Lake (Alberta) son Joseph Auger and Marie Camyuwattumagyu; married 1889, Trout Lake (Alberta), Margaret Muskwah.
Elzear Auger, Metis, b-1872, Lesser Slave Lake son William Auger, b-1836, Trout Lake (Alberta) and Marie Nipissing; married 1895 Athabasca Landing, Catherine Cardinal, Metis, b-1880 Buck Lake (Alberta), daughter, Joseph dit Mustatip Cardinal, Metis, b-1838, Lac Ste Anne (Alberta) and Marie Neyomonpekinam a Cree.
Nancy Blandion, b-1872, Battle River Settlement (Alberta) likely the daughter of William Blandion and Rosalie Malaterre, born September 18, 1840.
Narcisse Belcourt, b-1872, Battle River Metis Settlement (Alberta) son Jean Baptiste Belcourt, born January 20, 1849, Lac Ste Anne (Alberta) and Isabelle Adam, born July, 1858, Lac La Biche (Alberta); married Emilie Madeleine Gladu, b-1882, St. Albert (Alberta) daughter Celestin Gladu, b-1859, Lac Ste Anne (Alberta) and Marguerite Callio, b-1856, Lac Ste Anne (Alberta).
John Roger Berard Sr., b-1852, married 1872 St. Albert, (Alberta), Rosa Archange Belcourt, b-1859 Lac Ste Anne;
Augustin Berard, Metis, b-1852 Red River son Eustache Berard, Metis, b-1829/31 and Marguerite Primeau, b-1836; married 1872 St. Albert (Alberta), Jeannette Delorme, b-1858 on the Plains, daughter Pierriche Delorme, b-1813 White Mud (Alberta) and Angele Bourassa, b-1805, St. Albert (Alberta).
Jean Baptiste Barbet Boucher, Metis, b-1872, Athabasca District, died June 9, 1892, Muskeg Lake (Saskatchewan) son Frances Boucher, b-1824 and Elizabeth Native.
George Washington Brazeau, Metis, b-1845 son Joseph Edward Brazeau and Marguerite Brabant, Metis alias Salois b-1815, Fort Edmonton (Alberta); married 1879, Fort Saskatchewan (Alberta) Adelaide Ward, 2nd marriage 1881, Lac Ste Anne, Louise Belcourt, Metis, b-1864, Lac Ste Anne daughter Alexis Belcourt, b-1826 and Nancy Rowand, Metis, b-1832 Lesser Slave Lake, (Alberta).
Lac La Biche, marriage, 1872/77, Joseph dit Mustatip Cardinal, Metis b-1838 Lac Ste Anne son Jacques Cardinal and Josephite Ticikak, married Angelique (Kakakekamik) Moise, Metis b-1857 daughter Jean Baptiste (Kakakekamik) Moise b-1827 and Charlotte Wapisiokowan; 2nd married 1856 Madeleine Abraham; married 1868 Lac La Biche John Longmore Sr. b-1850 Fort Pitt son William Longmore and a Metis mother
Angele Cardinal, Metis, b-1872, Lac La Biche (Alberta), daughter Dominique Cardinal, Metis, b-1845, Floating Stone Lake (Alberta) and Marie Anne Desjarlais.
Edward Cardinal, Metis, b-1872, Lac La Biche, son, Francois Cardinal, Metis, b-1831, Lac La Biche (Alberta) and Adele Angele Desjarlais, b-1820; married, 1892, Calling Lake, Athabasca, Josephte (Suzette) Gladu, Metis, b-1872, Calling Lake, Athabasca, daughter Toussaint Gladu (1843-1898) and Angelique A-ton-ka-pow a Cree, b-1839, Lesser Slave Lake (Alberta)
John Clawson, Metis b-1872 Alberta married about 1900 Burnt Lake Huldrid b-1883 England.
Robert Crasmus, Metis b-1872 Alberta son Peter Crasmus, Metis b-1833, living Alberta 1872 to 1888, living Lakeland, Alberta 1891.
Batice Demerce, Metis b-1872 Alberta, married about 1893 Alberta Mary Metis b-1872 Alberta, living Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta 1901.
Jean Baptiste Rabasca Deschamps, b-1872, St. Albert, (Alberta), son Jean Baptiste Rabasca Deschamps, b-1850 and Marguerite Berard, b-1856.
Kate Faver, Metis b-1872 N.W.T. living Battle River, (Alberta), 1891.
Louis Fiddler b-1872 N.W.T. living Mountain Mill, (Alberta), 1901.
George Fraser, Metis b-1872 Alberta living Strathcona, (Alberta), 1901.
Galarnaut, a servant from New Caledonia district, arrived at Fort Edmonton (Alberta) and eventually settled St. Albert (Alberta).
Clarisse Gaucher, b-1872, Jasper House (Alberta) son Michel Gaucher, b-1829 and Marie Karaconti, b-1846.
Calling Lake, Athabaska, birth Josephte (Suzette) Gladu, Metis, b-1872 son Toussaint Gladu b-1843, d-1898 Calling Lake, and Angelique Atonkapow Cree daughter Iitowkapow Cree and Marie Rose Noglas; married 1872 Calling Lake, Athabasca, Edward Cardinal b-1872/73 Lac La Biche son Francois Cardinal and Adele (Angele) Desjarlais.
(II)-Jarmina Gonan, Metis b-1868 Alberta daughter (I)-William Gonan b-1823 Orkney Island and Sara Metis b-1833 Red River, living Lakeland, Alberta 1891.
Donald Graham of the Wolseley Expedition to Red River arrived Fort Edmonton. Later this year he was taken by Donald Todd a Metis and his wife on the buffalo hunt south of Trail Creek des Metis on the Red Deer River.
Clarisse Karacounti, b-1872 Peace Hills (Alberta), daughter Alexander (Alide) Karaconti, b-1845 Rocky Mountain House and Mooshwan Rosalie Letendre b-1848 Lac Ste Anne (Alberta), living Lac Ste Anne 1901.
Dieudonne Karacounti, b-1872 Lac Ste Anne (Alberta), son Alexander (Alide) Karaconti, b-1845 Rocky Mountain House and Mooshwan Rosalie Letendre b-1848 Lac Ste Anne (Alberta), living Lac Ste Anne 1901.
Joseph Laderoute, Metis b-1872 Alberta married about 1893 Alberta Josephine Metis b-1873 Alberta living Ste Emerence, Alberta 1901.
Caroline Lafleur, b-1872, Fort Edmonton, (Alberta), daughter Jean Baptiste LaFleur, b-1811 (Saskatchewan) and Angelique Jourdain; married 1890, Joseph Bouvier, b-1872 (Saskatchewan).
Joseph Lafontaine b-1872 N.W.T., living Medicine Hat 1891.
Francois and Joseph Lamoureux are believed to have settled north, across the River from Fort Saskatchewan this year.
Louis Lepoint, Metis b-1872 Alberta married to Julia Metis b-1871 Alberta living Wetaskiwan, Alberta 1901.
Edward McKay. Metis son John Richards McKay and Harriet Ballenden Metis established a trading post at Cyprus Hills in 1872.
Narisse Mercredi, Metis, b-1872, Athabasca District son Abraham Mercredi, b-1824 and Charlotte Peapierous a Cree: married Elizabeth Beaulieu, b-1881, Athabasca District daughter Alphonse Bealieu and Delphine Tourangeau.
Charles Monlman, Metis b-1872 Alberta masrried to Louisa Metis b-1875 Saskatchewan living Whitford, Alberta 1901.
(I)-Donald Ross born June 17, 1840, died December 20, 1915 Edmonton, a miner by profession, claims to have arrived Fort Edmonton August 20, 1872 and stayed. It is highly unlikely that he could have resisted the pull of the second Edmonton gold rush. Most early settlers in the Edmonton area were in the habit of coming and going, especially during the various seasons, before they established themselves sufficiently enough to sustain themselves.
Nicholas Sheran d-1882, arrived Belly River (Oldman River, Alberta) and began quarrying coal about 1874 selling it to the whisky traders and the NWMP. The traders bought coal for $5 a ton and sold it Fort Benton for $25 a ton.
Trail Creek des Metis birth Marie Suchrown, Metis b-1872 Alberta likely Trail Creek, married before 1895 and this is likely her married name. Two children are recorded William b-1895 Alberta and Hackland H. b-1898 Alberta most likely Trail Creek.
Tennyson writing about Alberta said "from the glaciers and ice valleys. Innumerable streams descend into the plains . . wonder . . through groves and glades then . . . gather up many a wandering rill, and start eastward upon a long journey."
Donald Todd, a Metis departed Fort Edmonton for the Alberta plains to hunt buffalo, in the fall and winter of this year. His wife was a consumptive and was hoping that wintering on the plains would cure her. She was a full sister of a Metis called Godin, who brutally murdered his wife in 1871 on the banks of the Saskatchewan River below Fort Edmonton. The matter was settled by giving the father of his murdered wife six horses as compensation.
Philip Richard Turner, b-1872, Victoria, Alberta located 90 km NE Fort Edmonton, son Joseph Alexander Turner, b-1838, Moose Factory and Jane Whitford, b-1846; married Mary Margaret Coutts, born August 27, 1883, Fort Saskatchewan.
George Verey who came from London to Calgary and St. Albert practiced medicine, pharmacy and is a teacher in Fort Edmonton from 1872 until his death in November 1881. The Land Act stated that any head of family over twenty-one years of age could apply for a quarter section (160 acres) and obtain title after three years of improvements (build a house, clear some land) at a cost of ten dollars.
Dunvegan, Athabasca, marriage, Jean Baptiste Waniyande, born 1838 Jasper House son Jean Baptiste Waniyande, born 1821 Jasper House, and Isabelkle Karaconti, b-1820 Jasper House, died 1888 Jasper House daughter Ignace Karaconti L'Iroquoise, (1880-1890) and Anne otf the Sekanaise tribe (Montiagnais nation) Sekana; married 1872 Dunvegan, Athabasca, Isabelle Laurion, Metis, b-1840 Rocky Mountains of B.C. side, daughter Thomas Lauron and Angelique Metis.
Few Europeans ventured out on the prairies this year with out a Metis guide.
This exclusion of Metis living near Fort Edmonton is rather strange as they are believed to number some two hundred. Even the Fort records acknowledged that twenty-two Metis traders are delinquent in their debt. The Metis of south Fort Edmonton must all be free trading to be excluded. A common practice in fort census is to only count people who frequent the Fort. This, however, does not explain why there are no Indians included in Fort Edmonton's head count. The Metis who frequent Fort Edmonton from the North must be included under the St. Albert totals, as the list of Freemen owing debt at Fort Edmonton who have paid nothing to account thereof totaled twenty two in the spring of 1872. They are as follows:
Freemen owing debt at Fort Edmonton who have paid nothing to account thereof, in spring 1872 Charles Dumuis, Edward Boucher, Pierre Boucher, Alexia Braneau, Francois Braneau, Teidore Braneau, George Chulifour, Louis Courterielle, Joseph Deschump, Pierre Deloume, Felix Dummond, Antoine Godin, Pierre Le Duan, Alexander L Hirondelle, Joseph L Hirondelle, Pierre Nadue, Michael Nippisangue, Louis Rouselle, Alexander Savard, Antoine Shaw, Joseph Sandable and Basil La Runse.
This list of bad debt could represent a shift of trade from the Fort to the free traders. Many of these freemen made annual trips to Fort Garry to make trades with the St. Paul Metis people who traded to St. Paul, Minnesota. Others traded down to Fort Benson, Montana.
A second gold rush hit Fort Edmonton and all horses, mules and rolling stock of the Hudson Bay Company disappeared, heading for the Crowsnest Pass and Wild-horse country where gold is reported. Excluding the Blackfoot, who was notorious horse thieves, these were probably the first rustlers recorded in Alberta.
There are reports that a few Metis people squatted from 1869 to 1874 on land near the Saskatchewan River at Edmonton, both opposite the fort across the river and in the lower settlement, East of the Hudson Bay Reserve. Also mentioned are James Inkster and William Inkster, some of the Rowand's and Galleon's from the lower settlement. The St. Albert Metis recorded that they forded the Saskatchewan below Fort Edmonton where the High Level Bridge (Edmonton) now stands, when going to or from the Prairie Buffalo Hunt at Trail Creek des Metis this year.
Alexis Cardinal built a cabin 25 miles west of the mouth of the Elbow River and the Bow River. Father Scollen, born 1841 Ireland, wanted the cabin in 1873 so Cardinal went on to build another cabin at the junction of the Bow and Elbow Rivers. His first cabin is considered the first church in southern Alberta. Father Leon Doucet would later claim this second cabin before being displaced by the RCMP to the Fort Calgary site. Alexis Cardinal suffered from religious mania becoming more unbalanced as time passed.
Bishop Clut and an unnamed Oblate assistant, born 1844, arrived Fort Edmonton 1870 and departed Fort Good Hope for Fort Yukon (1872-74), being guided by two Indians. The Bishop returned but the unnamed priest went on to San Francisco before returning.
It was claimed that Donald MacLeod, a man who never married, built the first house outside Fort Edmonton this year, having joined the Hudson Bay Company in 1869, he arrived at Fort Edmonton in 1870 and free traded in 1871. He left in 1875 to freight from Winnipeg to Edmonton until 1895. The normal indenture to the Hudson Bay Company, at this time, is a five-year contract, so it is unlikely he free-traded in 1871 and improbable he built a house until 1874 or later. John Walter (1849-1920) on April 2 is stationed at Fort Pitt. He and a number of fellow servants of the Hudson Bay Company requested an accounting of what they owed.
It is believed that the Metis are farming the Fort Saskatchewan and Fort Edmonton District, including White Mud Creek (Alberta), about this time.
The Metis brigades of Red River Carts on the Carlton Trail this year are making over 40 miles a day. Normally 30 miles a day is considered average. These would be those carting for the Company vs. the Free-traders.
The population of Lac La Biche (Alberta) believed occupied pre 1770 is more than 15 times the population of Fort Edmonton (Alberta).
Some contend Francois and Joseph Lamoureux settled on the river bank opposite to the present town of Fort Saskatchewan to become the first permanent settlers. This is hard to believe as four or more forts/trading posts were recorded at this site and Birch Hill as it was called was a canoe manufacturing site for hundreds of years. It wasn't until the arrival of the NWMP in 1875 that Sturgeon Creek Post aka Fort Saskatchewan was truly established. The few European farmers in the district went out to their farms by day, but returned to the Sturgeon Creek Fort for protection each night.
January 11: Government House at Fort Garry attempted to clarify or compromise the difference of opinion between Bishop Grandin's Metis and the Government, concerning the Metis land claims on the Saskatchewan River. The only half-breed claim for Reserves is created by the Act of Manitoba and that is confined to Manitoba. The Government promised to recognize the claims of actual settlers to an amount of land sufficient to make a farm for each head of family. No title to land is promised in the near term. Those living in tents or engaged in hunting, trapping or freighting are not considered settlers. The majority of Metis lived in tents on their summer homesteads where they cleared the land, planted the crops and made hay. The Winter homes were made of logs with fire places but were not used as homesteads. A significant number at Trail Creek des Metis used this settlement as both their winter and summer homesteads but they usually claimed lands a distance from the town site. The Government and clergy just did not understand the culture of the People or choose to ignore it to their advantage.
March 20: Donald Smith is considering a request from Father Lacombe for land at Saint Paul to be used for a mission, which would include an establishment. But this is not the way to make a profit. He said that this was too important for a quick answer and that he would think about it.
May 19: Edward McKay, Metis, and his wife Caroline Cook established a trading post and farm just south of the later Fort Walsh site in Cyprus Hills. They had horses and cows and grew potatoes and barley. They had two sons and two daughters, Jemina married John Henery Grisham Brady NWMP d-1884 and Emma married Peter O'Hare RCMP. It is noteworthy that cows played different roles than today, they pulled ploughs and carts and provided milk and meat.
August 26 Fort Edmonton, birth Cecile Vandel, Metis daughter Francois Vandel, Metis, b-1850 and Isabelle Deschamps, Metis, b-1855.
September 7: Robertson-Ross and William Munroe (b-1851), alias Piscan meaning buffalo jump, left Fort Edmonton for Kootenais or St. Claire Pass for British Columbia. He spoke Cree, Blackfoot, French and a bit of English. His father, Old Man Monroe- Hugh Monroe (1784-1892) had arrived at Fort Edmonton in1802.
December 3: Red Lake (Saskatchewan), birth Marie Cardinal daughter Dominique Cardinal, Metis, b-1845, Floating Stone Lake (Alberta) and Marie Anne Desjarlais; married Anfrew Quintal, Metis, b-1865, Lac La Biche (Alberta) son St. Pierre b-1844, White Fish Lake, Athabasca and Marie Oka-ee-ma-00-wasis, b-1846 Rivere La Biche.
1873
Agustus Anelia, Metis b-1873 Alberta married about 1895 Alberta Emile Metis b-1877 Alberta living Trail Creek, Alberta 1901.
(II)-John Anderson (likely Metis) b-1873 N.W.T. son (I)-Gilbert Anderson b-1830 Scotland and Mary Ducharme (likely Metis) b-1839 Red River; married Sarah Metis b-1875 N.W.T. all living Fort Edmonton 1891.
Patrick Beaudry Metis b-1873 Alberta living Lakeland, eastern Alberta 1891.
Emilien Belcourt, b-1873, Lac Ste Anne (Alberta) daughter Eswin Belcourt, b-1843, Lac Ste Anne (Alberta) and Louise Paul b-1857, Lac Ste Anne (Alberta).
Clarisse Belcourt, Metis, b-1873 Lac Ste Anne (Alberta) daughter Benjamin Belcourt, Metis, b-1852 Lac Ste Anne (Alberta) and Mary Betsy Native.
Garcilth Cardinal, Metis b-1873 Alberta living Lakeland eastern Alberta 1891.
Gabriel Cardinal, b-1873, Stony Creek, son, Gabriel Cardinal dit Labatoche, b-1835 and Marie Bruneau, b-1837.
John C. Dural, Metis is trading Milk River (Alberta/Montana).
Gilbert Gaddy, b-1873 Alberta son Alexander Gaddy, b-1834 and Margaret Kennedy; married Caroline Henry, b-1874.
(I)-John Glenn born Ireland and Adelaide a Metis born Devils Lake (Lac Ste Anne, NWT) settled in the Calgary (Alberta) area. They were at Fort Benton, Montana and headed north along the 'Whoop-up trail'. The arrived at the junction of Fish Creek and Bow River (Calgary). The built a log cabin and trading post.
1873 Indian encampment
Richard Charles Hardisty (1831-1889) a Metis appears to have built a house outside Fort Edmonton prior to 1873. The photo is an Indian or Metis encampment with the Hardisty house in the background.
Cashine House (f) Metis b-1873 Alberta living Lakeland, (Alberta) 1891.
George Larose, Metis b-1873 Alberta living Red Deer Lake, (Alberta) 1901.
Magloire L'Hyrondelle married St. Albert, Euphrosine Beauregard, b-1837, Fort Edmonton, daughter Charles Beauregard Sr., died 1885 and Josephte Kwarakwentha Callihoo L'Iroquois, b-1822.
Sam Livinhstone is trading and farming in Calgary (Alberta).
Joseph McKay, Metis b-1873, living Southern (Alberta) 1891.
Elie Mageau, Metis b-1873 (Alberta) married about 1895 Alberta Eva Metis b-1876 Alberta, living Lac Ste Anne, Alberta 1901.
The Reverend John McDougall and his brother David arrived Morley November 1873 with some fifty head of horses and cattle making him the first Alberta cattle ranchers. In 1875 he would again venture to Fort Benton, Montana, driving back another hundred head of steers and breeding stock. Others suggest the McDougall brothers brought a dozen head of cattle from Fort Edmonton to Calgary to establish a herd at the Methodist mission west of Calgary.
Michael Phillips made his way up the Elk River (Alberta) searching for gold and was disappointed in finding nothing but coal. His relatives claim he was the first European to visit the Crowsnest Pass.
Alexander Prudin, Metis b-1873 Alberta son Partick Prudin, Metis b-1843 and Elizabeth Metis b-1846 living Alberta 1873 to 1890, living Lakeland eastern Alberta 1891.
Marie Rose Onellette, Metis, born December 23, 1873, Buffalo Lake (or Fort Edmonton), daughter Jean Baptiste Ouellette Sr., Metis, b-1837 and Cecile Courchene, b-1837.
Abraham Salois of St. Albert claimed during this years buffalo hunt out of Trail Creek des Metis he had killed 37 buffalo in one run.
Gabriel Salois, b-1873, Battle River Settlement (Alberta) son Toussaint Salois, b-1850 and Helene Breland, b-1850.
Lucille Savard, Metis b-1873 N.W.T. living Fort Edmonton 1891
Mary Watson b-1873 N.W.T. living Southern Alberta 1891.
St. Albert, marriage Felix Blandion, son Antoine Blandion Sr. and Marie Desjarlais; married 1873 St. Albert, Anne Whitford, born Fenruary 15, 1836 daughter Francois Whitford Sr. b-1835 and Jane Anderson, b-1845.
Surveyor W.S. Gore began laying out the three thousand acre Hudson Bay Reserve. The Hudson Bay Company entitlement is at Fort Edmonton, Victoria, Assiniboine, Rocky Mountain House, Lac La Nonne and six other sites. Once the Hudson Bay Company staked their claim, the other settlers felt they could safely make their claim to lands on the Saskatchewan River system. The Reverend John McDougall reported that it could take the better part of a day to cross the Saskatchewan River from Fort Edmonton, depending on the season. In his opinion, there is not a single settler south of the Saskatchewan River (the Metis had winter houses and summer teepees or log houses but the clergy did not consider them settlers). He also believed those horse thieves and scalp-takers (the Indians) might be expected at anytime. He reported that the Cree occupied the Red (Deers) River valley and spoke of the wild Blackfoot and the wilder long knives (United States traders) in these parts of the country. They ran into Mr. Davis, who later became one of the first representatives for Alberta in the Dominion House. He is running with the Whoop-Up boys, killing Indians. Harrison Young claimed to be the first white marriage in Fort Edmonton. The second is William Wood and the third Donald Ross, born 1841, according to Ross's recollection.
The Metis of Cyprus Hills are running a Red River Cart Train to Fort Benton.
The Government Survey party is on North Saskatchewan River.
Simon Whiteford, Metis b-1849 Alberta son Samuel Whitford and Mary Henderson; married May 20, 1873 Victoria, Alberta ( about 1875 Alberta) Elizabeth Anderson, Metis b-1859 Alberta, living Pakan, Alberta 1901, daughter John Anderson Jr. b-1827 and Christie Whitford, b-1833.
March: Joseph Mahkass aka Noose or Ladouceur, son Joseph Mahkass and Veronique Batard, b-1844; married 1893 Lac La Biche (Alberta) Marguerite Lapoudre, b-1879, Lac La Biche, daughter, Henri Lapoudre, b-1851 on the Plains and Christine Carlouche Vivicr, b-1851.
March: Quite a large number of Metis and Indians had gathered south of the Red Deer River intending to visit one of the nearest trading posts south of the Bow River. At this time the only white men between Red Deer River and the Boundary Line where United States whiskey traders and wolf hunters. On the Southside of the Bow River is the Fort of Healy and Hamilton's (Fort Calgary). The commandant of the fort was a man called Davis. The fort had 6 employee's including an interpreter who was a Negro. The cook was a Spaniard. They traded mostly in whiskey but also carried guns and ammunitions. Their head office was Fort Whoop-Up to the east near Medicine Hat.
April 25: St. Alberta (Alberta), birth Rev. Patrice Beaudry son Narcisse Beaudry, b-1845 and Lucie Breland, born February 22, 1848 Red River
May: Red Deer, Alberta, birth, Augustin Hamelin, son Augustin Hamelin "Azure", b-1840, Red River and Marie Desjarlais, 1824, Lac La Biche; married April 16, 1895, Bear Hills, Emelia Vanesse dit Anas, born January 1, 1877, Calgary.
May 16: Fort Vermillion (Alberta), birth Alexandre Cardinal, Metis, son, Louis Cardinal, b-1840, Fort Edmonton (Alberta), and Marie Bison, b-1840, Dunvegan, Athabasca (Alberta); married August 6, 1895, Fort Chipewyan, Christine MacDonald, b-1873, Fort Chipewyan daughter Daniel (Donald) McDonald, b-1848 and Catherine Tourangeau, b-1943.
June 5: Fort Edmonton, (Alberta), birth Thomas Berard, son Eustache Berard, b-1829 Fort Edmonton (Alberta) and Marguerite Primeau b-1836; married Marie, b-1872.
October 12: St. Albert (Alberta), birth Roger Berard son John Roger Berard, b-1852 and Rosa Archange Belcourt, b-1859; married LaLouise Marrow, b-1880, Fort Pitt (Saskatchewan).
October 12: Cypress Hills (Alberta/Saskatchewan), birth Josephine Gariepy, daughter, Jean Baptiste Gariepy, b-1832 Red River and Julia Judith Cardinal, b-1827; married 1898, Gabriel Salois, b-1879, Fort Edmonton (Alberta) son Gabriel Salois, b-1852 and Elizabeth McGillis, b-1853.
November: Mary Jane Savard, b-1873, Egg Lake (Alberta), daughter, Antoine Savard, b-1825 and Marguerite Bisson, b-1831.