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Title Biography and Listing of Edgar Dewdney Papers
Date n.d.
Document Type Pamphlet
Reference M-320-A.D515 v.1
Library / Archive Glenbow Museum
Collection Name Edgar Dewdney Fonds
Description Biography and detailed listing of Edgar Dewdney papers. Contents includes biographical sketch, the Dewdney Trail and British Columbia Papers.
Series Description From GENERAL PAPERS, 1861-1876, Series 1 – Biographical Sketches, n.d.
Biographical Note / History Edgar Dewdney (1835-1916) was born in Devonshire, England and educated as a civil engineer. He came to British Columbia in 1859. He married twice: to Jane Shaw Moir in 1864 and to Blanche Kemeys-Tynte in 1909. He surveyed and built the Dewdney Trail, completed in 1865. He was elected to the British Columbia Legislative Council in 1869, and to the Canadian Parliament as Conservative member for Yale in 1872, 1874 and 1878. He was Indian Commissioner and Lieutenant-Governor for the North-West Territories (1879-1888) and (1881-1888) respectively. During this period he carried on regular correspondence with Sir John A. Macdonald regarding current affairs and, in particular, the 1885 Riel Rebellion (North West Rebellion). He was elected to Parliament as member for Assiniboia East in 1888 and 1891, and served as Minister of the Interior (1888-1892). From 1892-1897 he was Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia. He then retired to become a mining broker in Victoria, where he died. For further information see the MA thesis, "Edgar Dewdney, Commissioner of Indian Affairs and Lieutenant Governor of North-West Territories" / by Jean B. D. Larmour, Regina: University of Saskatchewan, 1969. See also E. Brian Titley's entry "Edgar Dewdney" in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, volume XIV, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998, p. 295-298; The Frontier World of Edgar Dewdney / Brian Titley, Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1999; and "The Honourable Edgar Dewdney, 1881-1888" in On Behalf of the Crown: Lieutenant Governors of the North West Territories and Alberta (1869-2005) / Sandra E. Perry and Karen L. Powell, Edmonton: Legislative Assembly of Alberta, 2006, p. 249-269.
Theme(s) Permanent Settlement and Successive Generations
Nationality American
Keywords business
Additional Information Please note: Some of the metadata for this document has been taken from the Glenbow Museum catalogue.
Language English
Document(s) linked to M.E.M.O of my Appointment as Indian Commissioner in 1879
Copyright Glenbow Museum