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I N T R O D U C T I O N 25
allies is but one of many evidences of his tact and sagacity.*
A nature i n which fairness and firmness met was, of all dispositions,
the most suited to handle such important negotiations
with the Indians as parting with their blood- right.
Fortunately these qualities were pre- eminent i n M r . L a i r d ,
who had administered the government of the organized Territories,
at a primitive stage i n their history, i n the wisest
manner, and, at the close of his official career, returned to
his home i n P r i n c e Edward Island leaving not an enemy
behind him.
The other Treaty Commissioners were the Hon. James
Ross, Minister of Public Works i n the Territorial Government,
and M r . J . A . McKenna, then private secretary
to the Superintendent- General of Indian Affairs, and
who had been for some years a valued officer of the Indian
Department. With them was associated, i n an advisory
capacity, the Rev. Father Lacombe, O . M . I . , Vicar- General
of St. Albert, A l t a . , whose history had been identified for
fifty years w i t h the Canadian North- West, and whose career
had touched the currents of primitive life at all points. f
• The Hon. David Laird is a native of Prince Edward Island. His
father emigrated from Scotland to that Province early In the last
century, and ultimately became a member of its Executive Council.
After leaving college his son David began life as a journalist, but
later on took to politics, and being called, like his father, to the
Ezecutive Council, was selected as one of the delegates to Ottawa to
arrange for the entrance of the Island into the Canadian Confederation.
He was subsequently elected to the Dominion House of Commons,
and became Minister of the Interior in the Mackenzie
Administration. After three years' occupancy of this department
he was made Lieut.- Governor of the North- West Territories, an office
which he filled without bias and to the satisfaction of both the foes
and friends of his own party. He returned to the Island at the close
of his' official term, but was called thence by the Laurier Administration
to take charge of Indian affairs in the West, with residence in
Winnipeg, which is now his permanent home.
tPather Lacombe is by birth a French Canadian, his native parish
being St. Sulpice, in the Island of Montreal, where he was born in
the year 1827. On the mother's Bide he is said to draw his descent
from the daughter of a habitant on the St. Lawrence River called
Duhamel, who was stolen In girlhood by the Ojibway Indians, and
subsequently taken to wife by their chief, to whom she bore two
sons. By mere accident, her uncle, who was one of a North- West
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| OCR | I N T R O D U C T I O N 25 allies is but one of many evidences of his tact and sagacity.* A nature i n which fairness and firmness met was, of all dispositions, the most suited to handle such important negotiations with the Indians as parting with their blood- right. Fortunately these qualities were pre- eminent i n M r . L a i r d , who had administered the government of the organized Territories, at a primitive stage i n their history, i n the wisest manner, and, at the close of his official career, returned to his home i n P r i n c e Edward Island leaving not an enemy behind him. The other Treaty Commissioners were the Hon. James Ross, Minister of Public Works i n the Territorial Government, and M r . J . A . McKenna, then private secretary to the Superintendent- General of Indian Affairs, and who had been for some years a valued officer of the Indian Department. With them was associated, i n an advisory capacity, the Rev. Father Lacombe, O . M . I . , Vicar- General of St. Albert, A l t a . , whose history had been identified for fifty years w i t h the Canadian North- West, and whose career had touched the currents of primitive life at all points. f • The Hon. David Laird is a native of Prince Edward Island. His father emigrated from Scotland to that Province early In the last century, and ultimately became a member of its Executive Council. After leaving college his son David began life as a journalist, but later on took to politics, and being called, like his father, to the Ezecutive Council, was selected as one of the delegates to Ottawa to arrange for the entrance of the Island into the Canadian Confederation. He was subsequently elected to the Dominion House of Commons, and became Minister of the Interior in the Mackenzie Administration. After three years' occupancy of this department he was made Lieut.- Governor of the North- West Territories, an office which he filled without bias and to the satisfaction of both the foes and friends of his own party. He returned to the Island at the close of his' official term, but was called thence by the Laurier Administration to take charge of Indian affairs in the West, with residence in Winnipeg, which is now his permanent home. tPather Lacombe is by birth a French Canadian, his native parish being St. Sulpice, in the Island of Montreal, where he was born in the year 1827. On the mother's Bide he is said to draw his descent from the daughter of a habitant on the St. Lawrence River called Duhamel, who was stolen In girlhood by the Ojibway Indians, and subsequently taken to wife by their chief, to whom she bore two sons. By mere accident, her uncle, who was one of a North- West |
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