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    Edgar Dewdney, PC (November 5, 1835 – August 8, 1916) was a Canadian surveyor, road builder, Indian commissioner and politician born in Devonshire, England...
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    Okotoks (redirect from Dewdney, Alberta)
    community name had changed three times, first from Sheep Creek, to Dewdney after Edgar Dewdney the Lieutenant Governor of the Northwest Territories, and later...
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    Archived from the original on June 13, 2021. Retrieved May 5, 2017. McInnis, Edgar (1982). Canada: A political and social history. Holt. pp. 342–431. ISBN 978-0-0392-3177-4...
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    Lieutenant-Governor Edgar Dewdney had established the site of his considerable landholdings as the Territorial Capital. 1899 to 1919 Washington Park and 3431 Dewdney Ave...
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  • philosopher Anna Dewdney (1965–2016), American author and illustrator of children's books Christopher Dewdney (born 1951), Canadian poet Edgar Dewdney (1835–1916)...
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    D. Moulton, and Captain John Stewart. The civic committee met with Edgar Dewdney, Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories, who happened to...
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  • Indian policy" in the 1880s and 1890s—John A. Macdonald (1815–1891), Edgar Dewdney (1835–1916), and Hayter Reed (1849–1936), it was evident that they were...
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  • rather than for Edgar Dewdney. Deroche, British Columbia Durieu, British Columbia BC Names listing "Dewdney (community)" ""Dewdney Community", HeritagePlaces...
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    events, however, passed Qu'Appelle entirely by when Lieutenant-Governor Edgar Dewdney selected the locale of his own landholdings at Pile-O-Bones (then renamed...
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  • disappeared (the last Canadian hunt was in 1879), Lieutenant-Governor Edgar Dewdney cut rations to indigenous people in an attempt to reduce government...
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