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the relocation of the local Ojibway First
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an act of political skullduggery by the
federal government of the day.® He also
introduced in the House of Commons a bill
to control pollution in Canada’s navigable
waterways.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Bradbury was appointed to
the Senate in December of 1917 and died
in office in 1925.
The injury or death of an Icelandic-
Canadian soldier was big news in the
Icelandic community. Archie was
featured on the front page of the April
19,1917 issue of the dominant Icelandic
newspaper in Winnipeg.
1 Gerald W.L.Nicholson, (1962) Official History of the Canadian Army
in the First World War, Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914-1919,
Ottawa: Queen's Printer and Controller of Stationery, page 251.
2 John Newton Diary, Canadian Letters and Images, Pre-1914 Letter
Collection.
3 Archie's friend, PeteTergesen, the son of H.RTergesen, was shipping
out with the 223rd battalion.
4 By this time, many Ukrainian immigrants from the province of
Galicia had homesteaded in the Interlake. In the early days, the
Icelanders and the Ukrainians did not always get along well.
5 Miss Dennison appears to be an official with one of the groups of
which Elfsabet is a member, probably the International Order of the
Daughters of the Empire. After Archie died, it was Miss Dennison
who wrote to the military to secure more information.
6 Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, page 18.
7 F.W. Courington, /?. K. Calveriey, Anesthesia on the Western Front:
The Anglo-American experience of World War I Anesthesiology,
Cambridge University Press, 2011, page 387.
8 In 2008, the federal government finally acknowledged its
wrongdoing, and in 2011 paid the Peguis Band $125 million in
compensation. Bradbury's stand was of particular note because
there were few votes to be had; Canada's First Nations people were
not enfranchised until 1960.
9 The government of the day responded by appointing a committee
to consider the matter.