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	Dennis, John Stoughton
		Dennis, John Stoughton, surveyor, soldier (b at Kingston 19 Oct 1820; d at Kingsmere, Qué 7 July 1885).
		Of UE Loyalist stock, Dennis was commissioned a surveyor in the Department of Crown Lands in 1843.
		His son, J.S. Dennis Jr, followed a similar career as a surveyor in the West in 1872, as commander of a militia unit against Riel at BATOCHE in 1885, and as inspector of surveys 1887-94.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?ArticleId=A0002227 (230 words)

	Dennis, John Stoughton Lieut.Col.
		Lieut: Colonel John Stoughton Dennis, Deputy Minister of the Interior, was born at Kingston, Ontario, in 1820.
		He is the eldest son of Joseph Dennis and Mary Stoughton, his wife, and grandson of John Dennis, a United Empire Loyalist, who, living in Philadelphia at the time of the American rebellion, cast: his fortunes in with the Crown.
		Mary Stoughton was a granddaughter of John Gray, a member of Frazer's Highlanders, who, as part of Wolfe's army on the heights of Abraham, contributed their share towards the glories of the 13th of September, 1759, the day which gave Canada to the British Crown.
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	John Stoughton Dennis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lieutenant-Colonel John Stoughton Dennis (19 October 1820 – 7 July 1885) was a Canadian surveyor, militia officer, and civil servant.
		In 1866, Dennis led an ill-fated militia attack against the Fenians at Fort Erie.
		Dennis is noted for his role in precipitating the Red River Rebellion by his 1869 surveys of the Red River Settlement.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Stoughton_Dennis (137 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		Dennis was especially interested in the militia, believing himself “descended of martial ancestors.” In 1855 he was made a lieutenant of a cavalry troop, and in the following year commander of the Toronto Field Battery.
		Dennis attempted in vain to persuade William Mactavish*, the governor of Assiniboia and of Rupert’s Land, to punish the perpetrators.
		John Stoughton Dennis Jr, also a prominent surveyor, was a member of the firm, and the company became involved in surveys in the northwest; political influence helped secure contracts.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=39594 (1766 words)

	Red River Rebellion Encyclopedia Article @ ChangeCanada.com (Change Canada) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		This was undertaken despite warnings to the John A. Macdonald government from Roman Catholic Bishop Taché, the Anglican bishop of Rupert's land Robert Machray, and the HBC governor of Assiniboia William Mactavish, that any such survey would precipitate unrest.
		The situation escalated when McDougall attempted to assert his authority by appointing Dennis to raise a contingent of armed men, which were to arrest the Métis occupying Upper Fort Garry.
		On December 27, John Bruce resigned as president of the provisional government, and Riel was elected president.
	www.changecanada.com /encyclopedia/Red_River_Rebellion (3121 words)

	John Stoughton Dennis Jr.
		In 1894, William Pearce and J.S. Dennis were named delegates to the International Congress at Denver, Colorado, and in 1895, they were both sent to Alberquerque, New Mexico, in the same capacity, where Pearce delivered an address on “Canadian Laws and their Administration.” In fact, both men gave papers at the 1894 congress.
		Reports from Dennis and Pearce drew attention to the threatened loss of potential irrigation water from the St. Mary River and great concern was expressed by government officials and irrigation interests.
		J.S. Dennis and William Pearce, it was agreed that the Government of Canada would turn over en-block to the railway company a tract of about 3,000,000 acres of land lying between the Bow and Red Deer rivers, together with the surveys and plans showing how it was feasible to irrigate a large portion of it.
	www.landsurveyinghistory.ab.ca /Characters/Dennis_JS.htm (1595 words)

	Point Grondine Indian Reserve
		John Stoughton Dennis was encountering serious objections to his surveys, when he returned to Toronto, he reported to the Government, asking for someone to be sent with him on the next year’s survey expedition to clarify conflicts between what the Chiefs wanted and the words of the Treaty document.
		John Keating was involved in timber operations, and was part owner of a sawmill at the Beaverstone River.
		John Stoughton Dennis, the surveyor, bought the right to cut timber from the Chief of the French River Ojibways in 1851, even as he was surveying that reservation...
	www.wikwemikong.com /pointgrondine/treaty.html (1074 words)

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		Browne, Harry John, and Browne, W. A, 1878, City of Toronto [map]: Toronto, Hart and Rawlinson.
		Browne, John O, and Ellis, John, 1851, Map of the Township of York in the county of York Upper Canada: Toronto, Jno.
		Gehle, Henry John Wolsteyn, 1868, Sketch sheets of winter reconnaissance of the country east of Toronto, between the Don River and the Township of Scarboro, on the E. and the Don and Danforth Road on the N. to the Lake Shore: S.l, s.n, 1 map map, Scale [ca.
	prod.library.utoronto.ca:8090 /maplib/gta/cartobibliography.html (4009 words)

	Louis Riel Encyclopedia Article @ Mountie.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		John Stoughton Dennis increased anxiety among the Métis, many of whom did not possess title to their land, which was in any case laid out according to the
		North-West Territories Act (which dropped the provision that trials with crimes punishable by death should be tried in Manitoba), meant that the trial could be convened within the North-West Territories and did not have to be held in Winnipeg.
		John A. Macdonald ordered the trial to be convened in Regina, where Riel was tried before a jury of six
	www.mountie.net /encyclopedia/Louis_Riel (4790 words)

	METIS CULTURE 1869
		(I)-John A. MacDonald wrote on November 23, 1869: Unfortunately, the majority of the priests up there (Red River) are from Old France and their sympathies are not with us (Canadians).
		In the fall: Prime Minister (I)-John A. MacDonald (1815-1891) appointed William McDougall of the Hudson Bay Company to expedite the plan to survey the Metis Nation for sale to immigrant settlers, intentionally ignoring the river-lot system established for over one hundred years by the indigenous people from both English and French heritage.
		Dennis of the Canadian Party ordered the Party to cease action against the duly authorized Provisional Government and fled south to Pembina disguised as a squaw (iskwao).
	www.agt.net /public/dgarneau/metis48.htm (2218 words)

	John VIII Pope: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		John strenuously opposed the activities of St. Ignatius of Constantinople in Bulgaria.
		When Ignatius died, John recognized Photius as patriarch and called the council (879â“80) that momentarily reconciled the differences between East and West.
		JOHN XII, pope c.937 964, pope (955 64), a Roman...Agapetus II and predecessor of either Leo VIII or Benedict V. His father, Alberic, secured...synod that deposed John and elected Leo VIII as pope.
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/john_viii_pope.jsp (1922 words)

	Early Surveying and Mapping in Manitoba
		Simon Dawson was placed in charge of the work and he sent a survey and road building party, under John A. Snow, to Fort Garry to begin work at the western terminus of the route (the Dawson Road), portions of which are still in use today.
		John Stoughton Dennis, later the first Surveyor General of Canada, was asked to recommend a land survey system for the Northwest Territories.
		Dennis set out in 1869, along with Milner Hart and Major A. Webb, to implement this system pending approval from Ottawa.
	www.amls.ca /Early.htm (1216 words)

	Crowsnest Highway
		Elko itself likely enjoyed a more-or-less organic growth pattern until promoters unknown submitted a plan for a townsite to the CPR’s British Columbia Land Department on December 29th, 1910.
		John Stoughton Dennis, jr., the Company’s manager of irrigation projects, signed the plan on March 6th of 1911, presumably releasing the land to the promoters for development as “East Elko.”
		The community soon dispensed with the “East,” and by the beginning of World War One, report Wilkinson and Fitzpatrick, Elko’s Main Street was a vibrant central business district.
	www.crowsnest-highway.ca /cgi-bin/citypage.pl?city=ELKO (3797 words)

	Métis Nation of Ontario - Culture - Riel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		During the summer of 1869, the Canadian Government sent John Stoughton Dennis to Red River to survey the land.
		When Dennis arrived in Fort Garry on October 11, 1869, eighteen Métis led by Louis Riel stopped a crew of surveyors on the property of Louis' cousin, Andre Nault, and proclaimed that the Canadian Government had no right to act without permission.
		This was a very important incident, because it was the first act of resistance to the transfer of the settlement to Canada and, because it established Louis Riel as the champion of the Métis.
	www.metisnation.org /culture/Riel/riel_2.html (825 words)

	Metis History KRMA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The promise of the land was not fulfilled by John A. Macdonald's Government and the collecting of Métis scrip (a currency of land entitlement) was undertaken by any and all means by land speculators.
		Nationalism was at the fore, ultramontanism, (an ultra-Catholic dogmatism that insisted on the supremacy of the church over the state and forbad any freethinking not approved by the pope) and federalism were clashing and the issue of confederation was being hotly debated.
		The government responded by increasing the amount of money given to the Indians for food, (this was a wise decision because with their hunger satisfied, some of the Indians remained on the reserves) and by mobilizing a military force of 8,000 men under the command of Major General Middleton.
	www.kootenaymetis.com /history.html (8568 words)

	NYNY 1865 - 1868
		Financier John Jay, speaking in Paris, promises to build a National Institution and Gallery of Art in the U. It will be founded as New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1870.
		John Darling, Connewango's first town supervisor, dies on his farm at the age of 81.
		John Sturla becomes the first child born to Italian parents in Rochester.
	home.eznet.net /~dminor/NYNY1865.html (4398 words)

	Informat.io on Louis Riel
		The arrival on August 20, 1869 of a survey party headed by Colonel John Stoughton Dennis increased anxiety among the Métis, many of whom did not possess title to their land, which was in any case laid out according to the seigneurial system rather than in English-style square lots.
		Loosely constituted as the Canadian Party, this group was led by John Christian Schultz, Charles Mair, Colonel Dennis, and a more reticent Major Charles Boulton.
		Prime minister Sir John A. Macdonald ordered the trial to be convened in Regina, where Riel was tried before a jury of six English and Scottish Protestants, all from the area surrounding Regina.
	www.informat.io /?title=louis-riel (6046 words)

	Wadsworth
		Vernon B. Wadsworth was born in 1844 and at the age of sixteen became an articled pupil of John S. Dennis, Provincial Land Surveyor, upon passing his preliminary surveying examination in Toronto in April 1860.
		When John S. Dennis retired from his surveying practice and entered the Government Service as Surveyor General of Canada, Wadsworth arranged a partnership with Dennis' former partner B.W. Gossage and established a surveying office on Adelaide Street in Toronto.
		For a complete copy of the typescript see "History of Exploratory Surveys Conducted by John Stoughton Dennis, Provincial Land Surveyor, In the Muskoka, Parry Sound and Nipissing Districts 1860-1865 and Incidents of the Surveys and Succeeding History of the Principle Events of My Life" by V.B. Wadsworth - FC 3071.9.W32 1926.
	www.trentu.ca /library/archives/78-1002.htm (477 words)

	Membership of Yale's Skull and Bones Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		John Wallingford 1870 Andrie Paul James 1984 Anthony Benjamin Harris 1886 Appel George Frederick Baer 1924 Ardrey Rushton L. Arms Charles Jesup 1863 Arnot John Hulett 1885 Arnot Matthias Hollenback 1856 Arras, Jr.
		John 1959 Holden John Morgan 1944 Holden Rebuen A. Holland Henry Thompson 1962 Hollister Arthur Nelson 1858 Hollister Buell 1905 Hollister, Jr.
		John Briggs 1937 McMillan James Howard 1888 McMillan Philip Hamilton 1894 McMillan William Charles 1884 McNally Edward E. McNamara Thomas Philip 1951 McPhee Stephen Joseph 1973 McQuaid William Adolph 1889 Mead Frederick 1871 Mead Winter 1919 Meek John Burgess 1960 Mehta Arjay Singh 1976 Melton, Jr.
	www.wealth4freedom.com /truth/3/skullroster.htm (2599 words)

	Simon Wolcott of Windsor CT, 1624-1687, 4th son of Henry Wolcott of Windsor CT.
		He was Justice of the Peace at Torrington CT and Representative to the Connecticut State legislature, moved to Steubenville OH in 1833 where he was engaged in manufacturing; owned a woolen factory in Fallston, Beaver Co. PA 1841-50 and the sale of his estate was recorded in the Beaver County court in 1858; m.
		Samuel gives no children for John and says he lived in NYC and Litchfield, where he is buried.
		A Wolcott family sometimes said to be descendants of John Stoughton Wolcott is in error.
	www.wolcottfamily.com /simon.html (5754 words)

	The Metis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		During the summer of 1869, the Canadian government sent John Stoughton Dennis to
		On October 16, Riel was elected secretary of the Métis "National Committee" and John Bruce was elected president.
		Five days later, the Committee sent a warning to McDougall advising him not to enter the country without special permission from the Committee.
	members.shaw.ca /rayandliz/metis.htm (1054 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		J.S. Dennis (1820-85) was a military man and a surveyor for the CPR who later became deputy minister of the interior.
		CP records seem to indicate that the name honours him, although it at least as likely honours J.S. Dennis Jr.
		He Also served as Director of Transportation and Intelligence for the Canadian brigade in Siberia during World War I. The orginal PO in the area was New Hope (4-9-8-W2, 1901-04), a descriptive name suggested by Mrs.
	library2.usask.ca /pcsesask/stoughton1.html (164 words)

	Directory of the County of Grey for 1865-6. (Part 8)
		Sullivan is one of the Western townships of the County of Grey, being bounded North by the township of Derby, East by the Garafraxa Road and Holland, South by Bentinck, and West by Arran and Elderslie, the County of Bruce.
		Dennis and Rankin were instructed to pull up the stakes when they came to them, and make a square survey of the township.
		John Hogg, who in addition to the usual work of carding and fulling, kept a powerloom in operation.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~wjmartin/grey8.htm (9166 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		He sold his commission in 1868 and was subsequently named major in the 46th (East Durham) Battalion of Militia in Ontario.
		In 1869 Boulton joined the survey party led by John Stoughton Dennis* that was sent to the Red River settlement (Man.) in anticipation of a rush of settlers to the region after its annexation to Canada.
		When the Métis under Louis Riel* resisted the imposition of Canadian rule, Boulton was called upon by Dennis to organize volunteers to put down the uprising.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=40106 (1205 words)

	The Fenian Invasions
		Two political factions competed for Irish loyalty during the famine years and thereafter; the "Young Irelanders" headed by John Mitchell, William Smith O'Brien, and Thomas Davis and the "Repealers" led by Daniel O'Connell.
		Fenians retreated to Fort Erie where they were engaged by another Canadian militia force under the command of John Stoughton Dennis.
		Speculation suggests that the Fenian raids are responsible for the creation of Canada as a country, however it is certain that the stirrings of confederation can be traced back to the time of the Fenian raids.
	www.mysteriesofcanada.com /Military/fenian_invasions.htm (749 words)

	Louis Riel - WikiLeasing.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		This group organised itself as the "Métis National Committee" on October 16, with Riel as secretary and John BBruce as president.
		McDougall attempted to assert his authority by authorizing Dennis to raise a ccntingent of armed men, but the anglophone settlers largely ignored this call to arms.
		Although Big Bear's forces managed to hold out until the Battle of Loon Lake on June 3, he rebellion was a dismal failure for Métis and Indian alike, with most surrendering or fleeing.
	www.wikileasing.com /0/Louis_Riel.html (4937 words)

	Red River Rebellion - winnipedia.ca
		While the convention did not then adopt the list, its demands were subsequently accepted as reasonable by the majority of anglophones once the contents became generally known.
		Even while much of the settlement was coming to accept the Métis point of view, resistance was building among a passionately pro-Canadian minority, loosely organised as the Canadian Party, led by Dr. John Christian Schultz and Charles Mair, and supported by Colonel Dennis, and the more reticent Major Charles Boulton.
		Shortly after this, Mair and Schultz arrived in Toronto, Ontario and with the assistance of George Taylor Denison, immediately set about inflaming anti-Métis and anti-Catholic sentiment over the execution of Scott in the editorial pages of the Ontario press.
	winnipedia.ca /wiki/Red_River_Rebellion (2761 words)

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