Reminiscences of the North West Rebellion, 1885
By Annie L. Gaetz
‘The seat of the North West Rebellion of 1885, was in Saskatchewan and north eastern Alberta, around Frog Lake and Whitefish Lake. The story of these troublesome times around the Whitefish Lake is here recorded as it was told the writer by the late Jas. Youmans, who, in 1880, succeeded Rev. H. B. Steinhauer at the Mission School at Whitefish Lake, and remained there until 1886.
“On the suppression of the first Riel Rebellion in 1870 there was a colony of French Cree, or Metis people, living along the banks of the Saskatchewan River south west of Prince Albert. With the setting up of the new government, these people feared an influx of white settlers, and so, abandoning their homes in the Red River Country, they came out to the land of the buffalo.”’
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