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Author of the article: Beth Wilkins Publishing date: Jun 22, 2021  •  5 days ago  •  6 minute read  •  • Photograph from Earth Sciences Museum – Dr. E.D.G. Deville, Chief Inspector of Surveys, later Surveyor General, and Director General of Surveys. He was recognized, among other accomplishments, for his introduction and enforcement of a more scientific method of survey and development of phototopography (photogrammetry) used to photograph difficult terrain. Photo by SUPPL...

The last few Ponderings made us aware of the Tomkins family – Peter Tomkins Sr., Peter Tomkins Jr.

Author of the article: Beth Wilkins Publishing date: Jun 01, 2021  •  June 1, 2021  •  7 minute read  •  • Glenbow Archives – 1935 – Members of Métis Association of Alberta with Members of Legislative Assembly – Edmonton: Back Row: (l-r) Joseph Miville Dechene (MLA); Felix Calihoo; Leonidas Alcidas Giroux, MLA; Peter Tomkins Jr. Front Row: (l-r) Jim Brady, secretary; Reverend Father Falher, Grouard parish priest; Joe Dion, president Métis Association; Reverend Bishop G...

Peter Tomkins Jr. died June 1970 in High Prairie, Alberta. His influence on Métis people and settlements on which they live has not. Last Ponderings, we left…

Peter Tomkins Jr. died June 1970 in High Prairie, Alberta. His influence on Métis people and settlements on which they live has not. Last Ponderings, we left…

Author of the article: Beth Wilkins Publishing date: Jun 01, 2021  •  2 hours ago  •  7 minute read  •  • Glenbow Archives – 1935 – Members of Métis Association of Alberta with Members of Legislative Assembly – Edmonton: Back Row: (l-r) Joseph Miville Dechene (MLA); Felix Calihoo; Leonidas Alcidas Giroux, MLA; Peter Tomkins Jr. Front Row: (l-r) Jim Brady, secretary; Reverend Father Falher, Grouard parish priest; Joe Dion, president Métis Association; Reverend Bishop G...

We were introduced to Peter Tompkins (Tomkins) Sr. in the most recent Ponderings. Tompkins, as we learned was the first Dominion Land Agent at Grouard in 1909…

Author of the article: Beth Wilkins Publishing date: May 10, 2021  •  1 day ago  •  6 minute read  •  • IMG_0506 – Scrip Commissioners (Seated l-r) J.A. Walker and Jean Jean-Léon Côté and Scrip Commission Secretaries (Standing l-r) J.F. Prudhomme and Charles Mair. Photo from David Leonard’s book Delayed Frontier, The Peace Country to 1909, and Saskatchewan Archives Board Photo by SUPPLIED Article content We leave David Thompson, who we and Charlotte accompanied acros...

Article content Thompson’s sight, compromised in his youth by the loss in his right eye, completely failed him by 1851, when he lost the sight of the left one. Although not a welcome situation, his complete blindness and years of misfortune did not diminish his belief in the ultimate goodness of Providence. Nor did it diminish the solace he found in wife Charlotte’s support and “unfailing care”. On further researching the life of David Thompson, your scribe discovered it was not daughte...

Author of the article: Beth Wilkins Publishing date: Apr 28, 2021  •  April 28, 2021  •  6 minute read  •  • Acc. No. 1972-26-735 Library and Archives Canada, C.W. Jeffreys illustration from The Picture Gallery of Canadian History Volume ll, p.148: The illustrations are of amateur artist Richard Dillon’s c.1808 drawing of Notre Dame in Montréal’s Place d’Armes and painter George Delfosse’s 1829 painting of the Old Church and the New. Photo by SUPPLIED Article conten...