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I N T R O D U C T I O N 27
mand of the force present at the making of the Fort Carlton
Treaty i n 1876; and M r . J . A . Cote, an experienced officer
of the Land Department at Ottawa. The secretaries were
M r . J . F . Prudhomme, of St. Boniface, M a n . , and the writer.
Our transport arrangements, from start to finish, had been
placed entirely i n the hands of a competent officer of the
Hudson's B a y Company, M r . H . B . Round, an old resident
of Athabasca; and to the Commission was also annexed a
young medical man, D r . West, a native of Devonshire, England,
whose services were appreciated i n a region where
doctors were almost unknown. But not the least important
and effective constituent of the party was the detachment of
the Royal North- West Mounted Police, which joined lis at
Edmonton, minus their horses, of course; picked men from
a picked force; sterling fellows, whose tenacity and hard
work i n the tradring- harness did yeoman service i n many a
serious emergency. This detachment consisted of Inspector
Snyder, Sergeant Anderson, Corporals Fitzgerald and McClelland,
and Constables McLaren, Lett, Bnrman, Lelonde,
Burke, Vernon and Kerr. The conduct of these men, it
is needless to say, was the admiration of a l l , and assisted
materially, as w i l l be seen hereafter, in the successful progress
of the expedition.
Whilst it had been decided that the proposed adjustments
should be effected, i f possible, upon the same terms as the
previous treaties, it was known that certain changes would
be necessary owing to the peculiar topographic features of
the country itself. For example, in much of it arable
reserves, such as many of the tribes retained i n the south,
were unavailable, and special stipulations were necessary, in
such case, so that there should be no inequality of treatment.
But where good l a n d could be had, a novel choice was offered,
by which individual Indians, i f they wished, could take their
inalienable shares i n severalty, rather than be subject to the
" band," whereby many industrious Indians elsewhere had
been greatly hampered i n their efforts to improve their con-
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| OCR | I N T R O D U C T I O N 27 mand of the force present at the making of the Fort Carlton Treaty i n 1876; and M r . J . A . Cote, an experienced officer of the Land Department at Ottawa. The secretaries were M r . J . F . Prudhomme, of St. Boniface, M a n . , and the writer. Our transport arrangements, from start to finish, had been placed entirely i n the hands of a competent officer of the Hudson's B a y Company, M r . H . B . Round, an old resident of Athabasca; and to the Commission was also annexed a young medical man, D r . West, a native of Devonshire, England, whose services were appreciated i n a region where doctors were almost unknown. But not the least important and effective constituent of the party was the detachment of the Royal North- West Mounted Police, which joined lis at Edmonton, minus their horses, of course; picked men from a picked force; sterling fellows, whose tenacity and hard work i n the tradring- harness did yeoman service i n many a serious emergency. This detachment consisted of Inspector Snyder, Sergeant Anderson, Corporals Fitzgerald and McClelland, and Constables McLaren, Lett, Bnrman, Lelonde, Burke, Vernon and Kerr. The conduct of these men, it is needless to say, was the admiration of a l l , and assisted materially, as w i l l be seen hereafter, in the successful progress of the expedition. Whilst it had been decided that the proposed adjustments should be effected, i f possible, upon the same terms as the previous treaties, it was known that certain changes would be necessary owing to the peculiar topographic features of the country itself. For example, in much of it arable reserves, such as many of the tribes retained i n the south, were unavailable, and special stipulations were necessary, in such case, so that there should be no inequality of treatment. But where good l a n d could be had, a novel choice was offered, by which individual Indians, i f they wished, could take their inalienable shares i n severalty, rather than be subject to the " band," whereby many industrious Indians elsewhere had been greatly hampered i n their efforts to improve their con- |
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