Tragic North West Mounted Police Tragedy Chronicle
In the Yukon and Arctic patrol tale, Inspector Fitzgerald and Constables Kinney and Taylor perish during a 1910 relief mission. Corporal Dempster and an Indian guide track the frozen Wind River trail, discovering the four bodies and Fitzgerald’s diary, revealing hunger frost and sacrifice. The four are buried in a single grave near Fort McPherson with a Christian service.
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Fitzgerald
Carter
Fort McPherson
Dempster
Inspector Fitzgerald
Constable Carter
Fitzerald
Record of Heroism on a Dawson Route Tragedy
A diary chronicles Corporal Dempster and Fitzgerald leading a dogged backtrack from Wind River to Fort McPherson in brutal cold. Starving, frost bitten, and weakened by scurvy, they killed dogs for food and pressed on until a final diary entry on February 5. The report lauds their heroic struggle and loss, calling it Saskatchewan’s greatest arctic tragedy.
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Dempster
Inspector Fitzgerald
Wind River
Fitzgerald
Dawson
Fort McPherson
Coronal Dempster
Constable Carter
John Fitzgerald
Halifax
F. J. Fitzgerald
R.N.W.M.P
Little Wind River
Perry
Corporal Dempster
Saskatchewan
Syd
A. Bowmen Perry
Montreal Citizens Benefit From Price Reductions
A citywide cut price campaign lowers prices across goods and services in Montreal. Suits boots furniture sugar butter eggs soap and groceries are discounted with displays and newspaper ads detailing markdowns from 30 to 50 percent. White sugar 15 3 4 cents per pound and butter about 54 cents a pound are among notable drops.
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Montreal
How to Knit a Baby Wash Cloth
Instructional note details knitting a soft baby wash cloth using size 8 knitting cotton and two steel needles. Cast on 56 stitches and work a 4x4 knit purl pattern, repeating across and shaping into a square with a crochet edge. A decorative border includes clusters of six double crochet stitches and a turning chain, finishing with a filled chain and fastened thread.
Marriage Ends Golf Romance Ends in New York Wedding
Thos D Armour of Scotland amateur golf champion of France plans to wed Consuelo Carreras de Arocona in New York. De Arocona, Mexican mine owner Rafael de Arocona's widow, died last June leaving an estate valued over 15 million. She claimed a common law marriage since 1918 and sought her share, but was denied in surrogate court for lack of formal marriage.
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Thos. D. Armour
Scotland
France
Consuelo Carreras de Arocona
New York
de Arolate Rafael de Arocona
Armour
United States
de Arecona
New London
de Aracona
Kingston Bank of Montreal Leader A. J. MacDowell Dies
A. J. MacDowell former manager of the Kingston branch of the Bank of Montreal died last week at age 71. He had led the Ontario Bank before 1906 and worked in several Ontario, Montreal, and Winnipeg banks before moving to Kingston in 1693. Germany Delivers Bonds to Allies Bonds amounting to 60 billion gold marks, about £3 billion by current rates, were delivered to the reparations commission as security for Germany's debt, announced by Austen Chamberlain in the House of Commons.
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A. J. MacDowell
Kingston
Bank of Montreal
Ontario Bank
Montreal
Winnipeg
Ontario
Germany
House of Commons
Austen Chamberlain
Commission
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Canada
Buffalo
Arctic
N.W.M.P
Yukon Territory
Mounted Police
Wide West
Arctic Circle
Constable Kinney
Taylor
Carge
Snyder
Dawson City
Mountain Creek
Fife and Turner
Charles Stewart
North West Mounted Police
McPherson
R.N.M.P
Constable Taylor
Rtg
C. E. Whittaker
Church of England
Europe
Andrew Waite
King Edward Hotel
Geetph
Sarees Ak Ae
Harold C. Shipman & CO
Shipman Chambers
Ottawa
Mons
Pia von
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