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View Our Privacy Policy. Why sign up? Create Account. Suggest an Edit. Enter your suggested edit s to this article in the form field below. Accessed 12 November In The Canadian Encyclopedia. Historica Canada. Between two and three thousand Indians had gathered for the occasion.

Serious objections were raised by the Indians on several occasions during the parlaying and the treaty, which was to be signed on September 8, was finally signed September In the Saskatchewan Branch of the Western Art Association erected a monument in the old school ground, it is now known as Treaty Park.

The names of many of the signatories to the treaty appear on the monument. The North West Mounted Police established a small outpost in Fort Qu'Appelle on the site of the present golf course in , in a small log cabin, with five men under sub-Inspector French. In the decision was made by Comm. James McLeod to enlarge the post. In July, "B" Division and headquarters under Sup't.

Walsh and Inspector J. Steele were transferred to the post, and by the end of that year the post was manned by four sergeants, five corporals and twenty-seven constables under the command of a superintendent, an inspector and two staff sergeants.

There was a strength of forty-six horses and two foals. All the lumber for the post was hauled by enlisted men from Swan River and the logs from some distance from the post. From this post the Mounted Police rode out on patrols along the trails to call on settlers and keep the peace over this vast territory. He parlayed with Assistant Commissioner Walsh to be recognized as Canadian Indians arguing their ancient allegiance to the Crown had never been broken.

The Sioux were granted sanctuary but little else. The buffalo numbers were declining and there was enmity among the Indians of the area who resented the presence of such a large group of hunters in their hunting grounds which were rapidly being depleted of buffalo. During the winter of many of the Sioux were starving and in early summer, The post had barely sufficient provisions for its own purposes, and the Indian agent was having problems feeding the Indians under his jurisdiction.

Sitting Bull met with Inspector Steele and Commissioner Dewdney again making a strong plea for recognition as Canadian Indians and the granting of a Reserve for his Sioux. The government official refused the request, offering only a minimum amount of food to stave off starvation. In a cairn was erected to mark the site where the NWMP barracks stood. In an interpretive shelter was officially opened at the same site.

Fort Qu'Appelle was chosen by General Middleton as temporary headquarters and base of operations for his troops on their way to Batoche in The General had brought his troops from Winnipeg by rail to Troy, which he considered to be the nearest spot on the CPR from which a trail led to Batoche, Riel's headquarters in the Indian and Metis uprising.

On April 6, , General Middleton and his force of including scouts and wagons left Fort Qu'Appelle on their trip north to Batoche up telegraph hill on the Carlton Trail. The building which General Middleton used for an oflice is said to have been one of the original Hudson Bay fort buildings, having been used as a school for the children of the fort at one time. This is probably the oldest building in southern Saskatchewan and certainly the oldest Hudson Bay building in the Province.

It now forms part of the Fort Qu'Appelle Historical Museum and is situated on the site of the original fort. The construction is of logs reinforced by willows and filled in with clay. Battleford was designated as the seat of government of the North West Territories Act in With the speeding up of the building of the railway in and the choosing of a more southerly route along the Qu'Appelle Valley, the capital would have been a long distance from the railway, so a new site for the capital was thought necessary.

Lieutenant Governor E. Dewdney was given pretty much a free hand in choosing the site for the new capital in There were many advocates for Fort Qu'Appelle for the capital. The year before, however, a group who thought it a foregone conclusion that Fort Qu'Appelle would be chosen bought up most of the property suitable for a townsite and were holding it for an expected windfall. This fact, together with engineering problems, probably were large factors in Dewdney not selecting Fort Qu'Appelle and choosing instead Regina as the new capital.

In retrospect, the valley no doubt remains more beautiful now as a result of this decision long ago. Abbe Provencher visited this area in The next recorded visit of a missionary was Abbe Belcourt in There were only three Roman Catholic missionaries from the Red River serving the west during this period and no further record is available until , when Bishop Tache passed through the valley on his way to Ile a la Crosse.

There is a tale told of how Bishop Tache and his party came into the valley on this trip at a point on the north side overlooking the place where the Mission was later established. In October of the following year Bishop Tache came back to the valley and stayed at Fort Qu'Appelle with Peter Hourie for a four-week period conducting services and ministering the people.

He chose the site for the Mission, later to become the village of Lebret.