1885 Resistance, Map, Battle of Loon Lake

Title:	1885 Resistance, Map, Battle of Loon Lake
Creator:	Lieutenant Colonel A.C.D. Pigott
Subject:	1885, Resistance, Military, First Nations, Big Bear, Strange, General, Battle, Loon Lake, Map
Description:	This is a map of the Battle of Loon Lake (near Fort Pitt), which took place on May 27,1885 between General Strange’s column and the Woods Cree. It was the last battle of the 1885 Resistance. Lieutenant Colonel Pigott drew the map. This document, part of A.C.D. Pigott’s post 1885 personal correspondence, is part of the A.C.D. Pigott Collection, which was acquired by the Gabriel Dumont Institute in October 1991 by the Ted Pappas family of Vancouver, British Columbia. The collection includes: Louis Riel’s English-French dictionary, Lieutenant Colonel Pigott’s 1885 Resistance battlefield manuscript, and a number of artifacts taken off the battlefield including: an inscribed watch, a pipe, a bullet maker and a buffalo powder horn (both from the Métis trenches), a carved wooden container taken from Big Bear’s camp, a First Nations decorative bracelet and horsehair braiding, which may have been traded for food by somebody captured by the Boulton’s Scouts.
Publisher:	Gabriel Dumont Institute
Date:	1885
Type:	Image
Format:	image/jpeg
Language:	English
Date of Copyright:	October 27,2004
Coverage:	Saskatchewan
GDI Media Location:	DVD 2
GDI Media Filename:	onloc_08.jpg

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