formally incorporated on 12 May 1882. The board of directors included Senator Joseph Northwood of Chatham, Ont., and Edgar

DEWDNEY, EDGAR, civil engineer, contractor, politician, office holder, and lieutenant governor; b

chiefs, provided them with ample sugar, tobacco, tea, and flour, and told them that Lieutenant Governor Edgar Dewdney

morale – in the influence which high character in public office can have on the life of a society, and particularly of a frontier society.” He was succeeded by Edgar

the Interior, after consultation with NWMP commissioner Acheson Gosford Irvine and Indian affairs commissioner Edgar Dewdney, awarded Légaré $2,000 in compensation; however, Légaré, who had kept a

Calgary. He stayed with them and was an employee of the Department of Indian Affairs for the next ten years. He accompanied the chiefs on a trip to Regina in 1884 to meet Lieutenant Governor Edgar

expedient, as in his 1888 farewell address to Edgar Dewdney