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Garnet Wolseley

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Garnet Wolseley
OccupationArmy officer

Colonel Garnet Wolseley led the 1870 expedition whose base was at Prince Arthur's Landing and built an earthwork fort there to protect it.[1]


In the 1909–1910 Papers

  • After a company of the 60th Rifles upset three boats and lost its pay box on the way to Shebandowan in 1870, Wolseley ordered a voyageur at bow and stern of every boat.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Captain Scott and Map", Papers to 1967, Centennial issue (Thunder Bay Historical Society, 1967), p. 37. Archived: datum.locker.
  2. ↑ D. McKellar, "The Red River Expedition", Papers of the Thunder Bay Historical Society, 1909–1910 (Fort William: Thunder Bay Historical Society; printed by the Morning Herald Press, 1911), pp. 13–15. archive.org.