A curious photo from 1885 captures what Indigenous reconciliation could have been
Members of the North-West Field Force meet on April 10, 1885, with the Cree followers of Chief Day Star , one of the signatories of Treaty Four.A World We Have Lost: Saskatchewan Before 1905In 1989, Gerry Dupont, who ran a stucco repair business, struck up a conversation with a woman named Carla Davidson at Winnipeg’s Festival du Voyageur – sparking a mystery that would resonate more than three decades later.
University archivist Brett Lougheed knew fairly quickly that he had something special – but wasn’t sure quite how “unique they might be.” So he gathered the first troops in the field at Fort Qu’Appelle, just north of the new Canadian Pacific Railway mainline, and began to march north on April 6, 1885, through the Touchwood Hills. Middleton was supremely confident that any Indigenous resistance would melt away before his force reached Métis headquarters: “Almost certain Riel and people will bolt,” he telegraphed the minister of the militia from the field. His only worry was the inclement spring weather.
He also pointed out that the 95th Manitoba Grenadiers – John Pattison’s unit – was not mobilized until April 10, four days after Middleton had left Fort Qu’Appelle for Batoche. Had the photograph perhaps been taken some place else?
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