- Lawrence Clarke
Lawrence Clarke (born:
June 26 ,1832 - died:October 5 ,1890 , Prince Albert,Northwest Territories ) was the Chief Factor of theDistrict of Saskatchewan for theHudsons Bay Company . He resided atFort Carlton inCanada . He later became amagistrate . Clarke moved to what is todayPrince Albert, Saskatchewan in the early 1880s and was a prominent local citizen with connections in the Conservative Party of Canada.He is regarded by some as worsening the living conditions for the Métis.Fact|date=December 2007. He tried
Gabriel Dumont for fining a group of Métis who had begun to hunt bison before the official hunt of theSt. Laurent community in the spring of 1875. This action invalidated the Métis's Laws of St. Laurent. Some figures in the Metis community, notablyJames Isbister , also blamed him for inciting the Metis to violence in 1885 by spreading false rumours of an impending government attack.He was the first elected
Member of the Legislative Assembly inNorthwest Territories ' history.ee also
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James Isbister
*Gabriel Dumont
*Day Hort MacDowall External links
* [http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=5437 Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online]
* [http://www.saskarchives.com/web/seld/1-00.pdf Archives of the Northwest Territories Legislature 1876 - 1905]
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