On Jan. 25, William Kennedy would pass away at the age of 75. He had been born in Cumberland House, Saskatchewan to a chief factor of the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1814 and would work as a fur trader as a young man with the company. He would stay with...
The Canadian West was an open landscape with few settlements, but the Canadian government wanted to change that. The Indigenous had occupied the landscape for millennia, shaping it and being shaped by it. Things began to change when fur traders...
His name is well-known in Canada, especially in southern Alberta, and his impact on the history of Canada is immense. He is Chief Crowfoot and today I am looking at his life and the legacy he left after his death. Crowfoot was born in 1830 in...