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Alberta Métis Settlements
Individuals list
1930-1945
(l'association des Métis d'Alberta leaders 1932 and other individuals)
Other key Individuals in the historical development of the Métis Settlements
c. 1930 to 1945
Mr. Alphonse Brosseau, General Merchant (mentioned by Dion in letter to Buck)
Mr. Buckley, St. Paul
Chas. Delorme, Fishing Lake c.1930
Geo. Hoadley, Acting-premier, and Minister of Agriculture, c. 1933
R. G. Reid, Minister of Lands and Mines, (main proponent of Métis in UFA government c.1933)
J. Harvie, Deputy Minister, Department of Lands and Mines c.1933
J. E. Brownlee, Premier, United Farmers of Alberta c. 1933
J. M. Dechene, MLA, Bonnyville c.1933 (lived 16 miles from Dion in Gurneyville)
F. J. Buck, Bureau of Relief and Public Welfare (main civil service contact for J. F. Dion after Feb. 1939)
J. Blair, Bureau of Public Welfare (also a main contact for Dion Nov. 1939)
Wallace Warren Cross, Minister of Health c.1940
Bishop Guy, Grouard (present at Feb 28, 1935 Ewing Commission with Dion, etc.)
Rev. Arch. Bishop H. O'Leary
P.M Duggan (Conservative Leader - 1933)
W. R. Howson (Liberal Leader - 1933)
P.G. Davies, MP
P. E. Lessard, Senator
Albert Freeman Ewing, Judge of the Supreme Court of Alberta (Chairman, "Half-breed"/Ewing Commission 1935-36)
James McCrie Douglas, Gentleman (Member of Ewing Commission - on leave from Federal Government job with Indian Affairs)
Edward Ainslie Braithwaite, Doctor of Medicine (Member of the Ewing Commission)
Mr. Rankine, (lawyer for Alberta government [worked with J. Harvie] and Secretary of the Ewing Commission - Malcolm Norris expressed mistrust in a Dec 11, 1933 letter to Brady - Glenbow Archives - Brady files)
P.C. Tomkins, Sr. (speaks, makes only joke while defining Scots Métis, in three days of serious hearings, at the Ewing Commission - March 1, 1935)
A.C. McCully, Government official (mid-1940s)
See list of early councillors c.1932
Stanley Clark (MLA - 1933 suggests trapping registration fee of $10 in legislature)
to other databases: 1. Nunavut significant dates
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