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	Edgar Dewdney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dewdney was originally employed as a railway surveyor, and supervised the survey of New Westminster.
		From 1868 to 1869 Edgar Dewdney became active in Colonial politics, representing the electoral district of Kootenay in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.
		In 1881 Macdonald arranged Dewdney's appointment as Lieutenant-Governor of the Northwest Territories.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edgar_Dewdney (611 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		Dewdney promoted the further subdivision of agencies, the appointment of additional personnel, such as inspector Alexander McGibbon*, to ensure closer supervision of the Indians, the creation of individual farms on reserves to “strike at the heart of the tribal system,” and the establishment of more industrial schools.
		William Dell Perley, the mp for Assiniboia East, was appointed to the Senate and Dewdney was elected to the House of Commons in a by-election on 12 Sept. 1888.
		Dewdney was a well-known figure by then and his status as a pioneer in the province made him a popular choice as the crown’s representative, although his wife’s snobbery would cause occasional irritation.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=41456 (3157 words)

	The Honourable Edgar Dewdney, 1981-88
		The Honourable Edgar Dewdney served as Lieutenant Governor of the Northwest Territories during the Northwest Rebellion of 1885 and his even-handed response to this crisis is often credited with preventing a general Native uprising.
		Edgar Dewdney was born in Devonshire, England, in 1835.
		Edgar Dewdney died on August 8, 1916, at Victoria, British Columbia, and was buried in the Ross Bay Cemetery in that city.
	www.assembly.ab.ca /lao/library/lt-gov/dewdney.htm (494 words)

	The Dewdney Trail - Biography
		Born into a family of middle-class means with servants in the County of Devonshire, England in 1835, Dewdney was educated as a Civil Engineer at Cardiff and gained a fondness for athletic endeavors such as cricket.
		In 1872, Dewdney was elected to Parliament, representing Yale, British Columbia as a Conservative under Sir John A. Macdonald.
		Edgar Dewdney was one of the many educated young men who ventured from the genteel environments of the 'Old World' to seek fortune and fame in the wilds of the 'New World'.
	www.virtualmuseum.ca /~dewdney/english/bio/index.php (872 words)

	Sir Edgar Dewdney, Nation-Builder
		Edgar Dewdney and Jane Moir were the first couple married in Hope's Christ Church Anglican, on March 28, 1864.
		Edgar Dewdney and Walter Moberly were awarded the contract to construct this road to the Okanagan.
		Edgar Dewdney was awarded the contract and built the 1.2 metre-wide Dewdney Trail from Hope to Princeton that same year.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/canadian_history_culture/73240 (628 words)

	Edgar Dewdney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Edgar Dewdney Edgar Dewdney (1835 to August 8, 1916) was a Canadian politician born in Devonshire, England.
		Responsible government had not yet been granted to the Northwest Territories, so Dewdney was the Territories' head of government and not a mere figurehead.
		After his term as Lieutenant Governor, Dewdney was again elected to Parliament and served as the member for Assiniboia East (now southeastern Saskatchewan) from 1888 to 1891.
	edgar-dewdney.iqnaut.net (436 words)

	The Oak Bay Encyclopedia
		Dewdney later served as both a member of the Legislative Council and as a Member of Parliament.
		Dewdney became one of Oak Bay's earliest settlers when he purchased property and built his home at 2840 Cadboro Bay Road.
		Edgar Dewdney is remembered by Dewdney, B.C., the Dewdney Trail and, in Oak Bay, Dewdney Avenue, renamed from Alexander Avenue in 1921.
	www.webturf.com /oakbay/history/encyclopedia/d.shtml (248 words)

	The Frontier World of Edgar Dewdney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In introducing this thoroughly researched biography, Brian Titley admits that Edgar Dewdney was neither 'a great man [n]or a nation builder' and warns that Dewdney's extensive paper trail reveals little about his private life.
		Yet he effectively paints Dewdney as 'a representative of that class of adventurer who saw in the western frontier an unprecedented opportunity for self-aggrandizement'.
		Dewdney's political goal was a sinecure to furnish the steady income his spending habits required and his business ventures, including cattle ranching and mining, did not always provide.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/chr/814/world7.html (679 words)

	Dewdney Trail
		The original Dewdney Trail was a 400 km trail route extending from Hope to Galbraith's Ferry on the Kootenay River.
		The trail was routed and constructed under the supervision of Edgar DEWDNEY, a civil engineer appointed by Frederick Seymour, the governor of the colony of BC, in April 1865.
		The purpose of the trail was to provide a route to the BC Interior in order for the British to maintain control over the growing gold-mining interests in the region.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0002271 (196 words)

	Dictionnaire biographique du Canada en ligne
		Dewdney entendit des récriminations semblables et vit encore des scènes de désolation en parcourant d’autres régions du Nord-Ouest.
		Dewdney accepta et devint lieutenant-gouverneur le 3 décembre 1881.
		Dewdney sentait venir la crise, mais recevait des messages contradictoires de la part de ses hommes sur le terrain.
	www.biographi.ca /FR/ShowBio.asp?BioId=41456&query=Edgar+AND+Dewdney (3371 words)

	The Glenbow Museum > Dewdney Papers- Table of Contents
		Speech re CPR by Dewdney to constituents at Cache Creek.
		-- Dewdney's appointment as Indian Commissioner and instructions to supply food to starving Indians; to establish farming agencies, two of which are to be at Fort Macleod and Fort Calgary; visit and carefully report on Sitting Bull and the Sioux as to their disposition and movement.
		-- On Dewdney's appointment as Lieutenant-Governor of the North-west Territories.
	www.glenbow.org /collections/search/findingAids/archhtm/dewdney.cfm (9565 words)

	Vanishing B.C. Camp Defiance on the Dewdney Trail
		The Dewdney Trail was commissioned by Governor James Douglas in 1860 in response to the discovery of gold in the Okanagan-Boundary region--an area much more easily accessible from the USA than it was from the only British population centre at New Westminster.
		Edgar Dewdney was an English civilian surveyor only three months in the colony, hired to blaze the trail under supervision of the Royal Engineers.
		Dewdney eventually extended the trail all the way to Fort Steele in the east Kootenays following the 1865 gold rush there, but that portion of the trail saw little use as the supply routes running north from Washington were so much simpler.
	www.michaelkluckner.com /bciw2hopeprinceton.html (3180 words)

	ABCBookWorld
		Dewdney continued to dominate Aboriginal policies when he returned to the House of Commons in 1888 and became minister of the interior and superintendent general of Indian Affairs.
		Dewdney was rewarded for his faithfulness to Ottawa with a five-year term as Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia from 1892 to 1897.
		Dewdney was elected federally as a Conservative to the new Dominion's House of Commons in 1872.
	www.abcbookworld.com /?state=view_author&author_id=5174 (555 words)

	Capital News Online
		Dewdney is the man commemorated for establishing Regina as the
		Dewdney acted as Lieutenant-Governor of the region from 1881-1888 and is credited with developing policies to govern an expanse of land that stretched "from the Manitoba border to the Rockies and from the international boundary to the Arctic Islands." He came to Canada from Britain in 1859 and worked for several years as an engineer.
		Dewdney is also known for his success at handling Indian affairs during a stormy time in Canada's history.
	www.carleton.ca /Capital_News/05021999/ew-03.htm (270 words)

	BCGNIS Geographical Name Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Dewdney (Post Office & Station) adopted 12 December 1939 on 92G/1, as labelled on BC map 2B, 1914, and as identified in the 1930 BC Gazetteer.
		Edgar Dewdney (1835-1916), minister of interior and lieutenant-governor of British Columbia, 1892-97), in charge of surveys for the site of New Westminster, and other engineering works.
		In 1881 Dewdney was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of the North-West Territories, serving through the Riel Rebellion.
	srmwww.gov.bc.ca /bcgn-bin/bcg10?name=17283 (428 words)

	Regina: The Early Years 1880 -1950
		Regina became the capital of the North West Territories when Lieutenant Governor Edgar Dewdney selected a previously barren chunk of land close to the CPR line called Pile of Bones as the site of the new capital.
		Dewdney maintained that the spot was close to the main rail line, which Battleford (the former capital of the North West Territories) was not.
		Dewdney appears to have been engaging in the popular business of land speculation when he sited the new capital.
	scaa.usask.ca /gallery/regina/west/terr_admin_bldng.html (233 words)

	Edgar Dewdney - AlanMacek.com
		Edgar Dewdney (November 5, 1835 – August 8, 1916) was an explorer for the Canadian Pacific Railway surveys in 1872 when he led crew 'V' on the North Thompson River.
		In addition to assisting with the railway surveys, Dewdney worked for the province of British Columbia exploring and building trails through the southern province.
		Dewdney and A.B. Rogers were partners in a trail building contract through the southern interior from Hope to Cranbrook, now called the 'Dewdney Trail' in 1865.
	canyon.alanmacek.com /index.php/Edgar_Dewdney (142 words)

	Disputing the Medicine Line
		Although Dewdney relented and allowed the payment of treaty annuities at Fort Walsh in November 1882, Allan McDonald, the Indian agent in charge of the payments, expressed his desire to "punish" the Indians, and he gave them barely enough rations to survive.
		Bristling at the suggestion of U.S. troops crossing freely into Canada, Indian Commissioner Dewdney responded that, while the Canadian government had no objection to the seizure and destruction of raiding parties property, cross-border raids were diminishing and would cease completely by the coming winter as the Canadian government compelled all Crees to move north.
		Dewdney disputed allegations that Canadian Indians were responsible for the majority of depredations in northern Montana.
	visitmt.com /history/Montana_the_Magazine_of_Western_History/Winter02/medicineline.htm (8585 words)

	Dewdney Trail, a Hiking Trail in Grand Forks, BC
		Dewdney Trail, a Hiking Trail in Grand Forks, BC All
		Dewdney was a young surveyor who was commissioned by Governor James Douglas to develop a trail from Hope, BC east 590 km to gold fields in the East Kootenays near Fort Steele.
		The Dewdney trail was the main route through this area until the Cascade Highway replaced it in the 1920s.
	www.trailpeak.com /index.jsp?cat=hike&con=trail&val=154 (232 words)

	HANCOCK HOUSE PUBLISHERS - Walter Moberly - Full Synopsis
		He and Edgar Dewdney were the first to start building a trail across the southern part of the province (this was later called the Dewdney Trail).
		Dewdney arrived in British Columbia at much the same time as Moberly.
		Yet Dewdney ended up as a lieutenant governor in an aura of prosperity, while Walter Moberly eked out his last years in a Vancouver rooming house on a barely adequate pension.
	www.hancockhouse.com /products/walmob_synopsis.htm (1270 words)

	Castlegar, British Columbia, Canada Business and Tourist Information West Kootenay
		This was the predecessor to the Dewdney Trail.
		Dewdney also reserved the land at the mouth of the Kootenay but as a town site, posting notices one mile up the Columbia and one mile up the Kootenay as boundaries.
		Construction of the Dewdney Trail, and especially the Big Bend gold excitement in 1865, led to the arrival of a number of small craft that moved up the Columbia River and through the Arrow Lakes.
	www.kootenay.org /history/Dewdney.html (1907 words)

	THE VIRTUAL MUSEUM OF MÉTIS HISTORY AND CULTURE
		The Honourable Edgar Dewdney, 2nd Lieutenant Governor of the N.W. Territories (02)
		The Honourable Edgar Dewdney, 2nd Lieutenant Governor of the N.W. Territories
		Edgar Dewdney was also Lt. Governor of British Columbia from Nov. 2, 1892 — Nov 1893.
	www.metismuseum.ca /resource.php/05017 (115 words)

	Edgar Dewdney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Following the union with Canada he was elected to the House of Commons, where he remained a member until 1879.
		A strong supporter of John A. Macdonald, Dewdney lobbied strenuously for the completion of the transcontinental railway.
		In 1878 he was named commissioner of Indian Affairs and in 1881 he became Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories (as Alberta and Saskatchewan were then known).
	www.ltgov.bc.ca /office/EdgarDewdney.htm (170 words)

	Vanishing B.C. The Dewdney General Store
		The old Dewdney General Store, on the Lougheed Highway east of Mission, is an interesting landmark, not as historically significant as the nearby Kilby General Store, perhaps, but one of those roadside icons I look for whenever I head east through the Fraser Valley.
		Dewdney, named for surveyor Edgar Dewdney who was the namesake of the Dewdney Trail amongst other achievements, was one of the early agricultural municipalities in the Fraser Valley, settled about 1867 by N.C. Johnston and Robert Grenville McKamey.
		By that time, the riverboat era had ended and, with improved roads and the beginning of the automobile age, the store at the old Johnston's Landing, dating from 1891, was closed and the business re-established next to the Dewdney CPR station.
	www.michaelkluckner.com /bciw1dewdneystore.html (426 words)

	Exploring The Creston Valley - Canoeing- Six Mile Slough
		Dewdney was hired by Governor Seymour to find an all-Canadian route to Wild Horse Creek so that Canadians could avoid U.S. Customs delays.
		This might have been a stopping place on the Dewdney Trail where fresh water was readily available.
		The original Dewdney Trail continues 4 km past the Falls to the Kootenay River.
	www.crestonvalley.com /explore/dewdney_trail.html (585 words)

	Amazon.com: Frontier World of Edgar Dewdney: Books: Brian Titley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Frontier World of Edgar Dewdney is a biographical study of a man who played a key role in the cataclysmic events which marked the political, social, and economic transformation of western Canada in the latter half of the nineteenth century.
		An immigrant adventurer seeking his fortune in the colonies, Dewdney was embroiled in the gold rushes of the 1860s, the B.C. debates on Confederation, the Riel Rebellion of 1885, political evolution in the North-West Territories, and the Klondike gold rush.
		For several years Dewdney held important public offices, such as Indian commissioner of the North-West Territories and Minister of the Interior, positions which allowed him to shape the course of events.
	www.amazon.com /Frontier-World-Edgar-Dewdney-Titley/dp/0774807318 (762 words)

	(GCK4W1) Engineer's Road by Goodguys, P.Eng (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Dewdney Trail was commissioned by Governor James Douglas in 1860 in
		Dewdney eventually extended the trail all the way to Fort Steele in the east Kootenays.
		Edgar Dewdney of Hope was the low bidder at 76 pounds sterling per mule.
	www.geocaching.com /seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=1eee5529-f789-4c12-85e5-83d4bc96e0ff (667 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		The territorial capital of Regina was located in Assiniboia and, on the formation of the province of Saskatchewan in 1905, became the capital of the province.
		Its location was chosen by Edgar Dewdney, the territorial Lieutenant-Governor.
		Dewdney had reserved for himself substantial land adjacent to the Canadian Pacific Railway line on the site of what became the town, and thereby considerably enriched himself.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=District_of_Assiniboia (299 words)

	Crowsnest Highway
		Dewdney had arrived in Victoria via Panama on May the 13th, 1859, with a letter of introduction to governor Douglas from the British Colonial Secretary, Edwd.
		Dewdney got the contracts in January of 1861, the latter one being worth £300 per mile.
		Completed by Dewdney in 1865, the “Dewdney Trail” is the direct ancestor of the Crowsnest Highway.
	www.crowsnest-highway.ca /cgi-bin/citypage.pl?city=hope (17037 words)

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