Results from public meetings of persons interested in the development of Batoche, site of an important battle during the Northwest Resistance. Aspects of development that are favored include a visitor's centre, preservation of nearby buildings...
This booklet outlines three plans for the Batoche National Historic Site and provides comments sections to the public to respond. The three plans incorporate: 1) A minimum of site redevelopment, with the use of modern media rather than historic...
Typescript of W.J. Carter's autobiographical account of his life and experiences in Western Canada during the period 1879 to 1910s. The most interesting part is Carter's account of the impact of the Northwest Resistance of 1885 on the Prince Albert...
A guide to Saskatchewan sites of historical interest related to the Northwest Resistance of 1885. It was released by the Northwest Advisory Committee and approved by the Government of Saskatchewan in the hope that it would "heighten public interest...
Portrait of Brigadier General W.D. Otter (appears to be cut from pamphlet or magazine), leader of the Canadian forces in the Battle of Cut Knife during the 1885 Northwest Resistance.
Original diary and various papers of R. Lyndhurst Wadmore, Lieutenant of the Royal Canadian Regiment during the Northwest Resistance, covering from 8 April to 20 July 1885. Included in diary pocket is a requisition for short boots that was signed...
Discussion of James Clinkskill's paper done in a question / answer format. Clinkskill describes his experiences with the Hudson's Bay Company, conditions in Battleford during and after the Northwest Resistance, scrip and the cattle trade.
Correspondence pertains to Cameron's interest in getting his sixty thousand word manuscript about the 1885 Resistance published. The clipping is the Swift Current Sun's report on W. B. Cameron's personal experiences of the Frog Lake massacre and...
A Record of the North West Resistance. Appendix includes despatches from General Middleton, Colonel Otter, Major Smith, and General Strange, as well as an "Address in Welcome of Boulton's Mounted Infantry," and a "List of Officers and Men...
A brief history of Lieutenant Wadmore's military career, including a copy of one of his paintings. Wadmore's original watercolours are in the custody of the Peter Winkworth Collection in Gatineau, Quebec. Images are available on the website of the...
Portrait sketch of Captain Stewart, commanding officer of the Rocky Mountain Rangers, in full uniform. Sketch cut out of Canadian Pictorial and Illustrated War News, June 1885.
Case studies of Chiefs Poundmaker and Big Bear compiled by Blair Stonechild using oral history and original source materials. A curriculum intended to "enable the student to review the circumstances surrounding Indian involvement in the Resistance...
An article on the history of the Queen's Own Rifles, beginning in 1860 with the founding of the regiment. The regiment's involvement in conflicts of the 1800s, such as the Fenian raids, the Red River Resistance and the Northwest Resistance, is...
The grave of Francois-Xavier "Batoche" Letendre who died in 1901 of consumption. He was a successful businessman and the founder of Batoche, Saskatchewan.
