Patrick petit jean biography of alberta

Walter Scott Robertson was born 30 Apr 1841 to Catherine Grant and David Robertson in St. John, New Brunswick. In 1855 he moved with his family to Ingersoll and then Seaforth, Ontario.

W. Scott married Harriet Rebecca Doty on 17 Oct 1865 in Seaforth, Ontario. They had seven children – Harry H., Nellie May, Caroline (Carrie), Frederick Marshall, Anna Laura, Robert A., and Grace.

In 1878 he began going on trading trips with his cousin Alexander Macdonald of the A. Macdonald and Co. to Winnipeg and Battleford. Robertson joined Macdonald on a buffalo hunt and trading trip to Edmonton in 1882. Upon his return to Seaforth, his asthma flared up again and he immediately decided to return to Edmonton, with the rest of his family moving once a home was built.

Upon arrival in Edmonton he went into business with his cousin Alexander MacDonald and John Cameron operating a general store. Harriet and her children arrived in Edmonton in 1883. As the home which was being built was not yet completed, the family lived in a tent. Unfortunately, once the family took up residence in the house, they discovered it was too small. In Oct 1884 the family moved into a former hotel that had been renovated into a home. This was located on the current site of the parking garage of the Macdonald Hotel.

At the end of 1884, the partnership between Robertson, Macdonald, and Cameron was dissolved. In early 1885 W. Scott Robertson became Sheriff for the Edmonton District. This role was not about policing or operating jails but was performed from an office and was to act as a process server and agent for both the civil and criminal courts. The Sheriff’s duties included collecting accounts on behalf of creditors, including the seizure and sale of assets, summoning jurors, conveying prisoners to the penitentiary, executing warrants, and levying fines.

As well as being Sheriff, Robertson purchased several parcels of land and did some farming. In 1882 he built Robertson Hall on one of his properties

Physical conditions in high-redshift GRB-DLA absorbers observed with VLT/UVES: implications for molecular hydrogen searches

Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2009

Aims. We aim to understand the nature of the absorbing neutral gas in the galaxies hosting high-r... more Aims. We aim to understand the nature of the absorbing neutral gas in the galaxies hosting high-redshift long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and to determine their physical conditions. Methods. A detailed analysis of high-quality VLT/UVES spectra of the optical afterglow of GRB 050730 and other Swift-era bursts is presented. Results. We report the detection of a significant number of previously unidentified allowed transition lines of Fe + , involving the fine structure of the ground term ( 6 D 7/2 , 6 D 5/2 , 6 D 3/2 , 6 D 1/2 ) and that of other excited levels ( 4 F 9/2 , 4 F 7/2 , 4 F 5/2 , 4 F 3/2 , 4 D 7/2 , 4 D 5/2 ), from the z abs = 3.969, log N(H 0 ) = 22.10, damped Lyman-α (DLA) system located in the host galaxy of GRB 050730. No molecular hydrogen (H 2 ) is detected down to a molecular fraction of log f < -8.0. We derive accurate metal abundances for Fe + , S + , N 0 , Ni + , and, for the first time in this system, Si + and Ar 0 . The absorption lines are best-fit as a single narrow velocity component at z abs = 3.96857. The time-dependent evolution of the observed Fe + energy-level populations is modelled by assuming the excitation mechanism is fluorescence following excitation by ultraviolet photons emitted by the afterglow of GRB 050730. This UV pumping model successfully reproduces the observations, yielding a total Fe + column density of log N = 15.49 ± 0.03, a burst/cloud distance (defined to the near-side of the cloud) of d = 440 ± 30 pc, and a linear cloud size of l = 520 +240 -190 pc. This application of our photoexcitation code demonstrates that burst/DLA distances can be determined without strong constraints on absorption-line variability provided enou

When Joseph Albert Montpetit was born on 10 August 1878, in Saint-Étienne-de-Beauharnois, Beauharnois-Salaberry, Quebec, Canada, his father, Onésime Monpetit, was 32 and his mother, Marie Cécire, was 31. He married Louise Anne Barnabé Martin on 9 August 1903, in Orleans, Ottawa-Carleton, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Nipissing, Ontario, Canada in 1911 and Athabasca, Athabasca County, Alberta, Canada in 1926. He died in 1971, in Legal, Sturgeon County, Alberta, Canada, at the age of 93, and was buried in Legal, Sturgeon County, Alberta, Canada.

PīTIKWAHANAPIWīYIN (Poundmaker), Plains Cree chief; b. c. 1842 in what is now central Saskatchewan, the son of Sīkākwayān (Skunk Skin), a Stony Indian, and a mixed-blood mother; d. 4 July 1886 at Blackfoot Crossing (Alta).

Poundmaker was born into a prominent Plains Cree family from the House band, his maternal uncle being Mistawāsis (Big Child), a leading chief in the Eagle Hill (Alta) area. Although his mother was a descendant of a French Canadian, Poundmaker was entirely Plains Cree in culture and appearance. Robert Jefferson, the farm instructor on the Poundmaker Reserve, writing some years after Poundmaker’s death, described him as “tall and good looking, slightly built and with an intelligent face, in which a large Roman nose was prominent; his bearing was so eminently dignified and his speech so well adapted to the occasion, as to impress every hearer with his earnestness and his views.”

A trader who encountered Poundmaker in the late 1860s recalled that at that time “he was just an ordinary Indian, [an] ordinary man as other Indians.” Poundmaker’s life changed, however, after Crowfoot [Isapo-muxika], a head chief of the Blackfoot, lost a son in 1873 during a raid on a Cree camp. Not long after, when a short-lived peace treaty was made between the two tribes, one of Crowfoot’s wives saw Poundmaker and was struck by his resemblance to her dead son. The Blackfoot chief immediately adopted the Cree and invited him to remain with the Blackfeet at Blackfoot Crossing, giving Poundmaker a Blackfoot name, Makoyi-koh-kin (Wolf Thin Legs).

When Poundmaker returned to the Crees, his influence with the Blackfeet as Crowfoot’s son and the wealth in horses gained from his new family gave him increased status among his own people. By August 1876, when the Indians of central Saskatchewan came together at Fort Carlton to negotiate a treaty with the Canadian government, he was considered to be a councillor, or minor chief, under Pihew-kamihkosit (