Register entry 013 - Mrs. Jane Dewdney


Visited the Bell Farm on August 8, 1884. - Jane Shaw [Moir] Dewdney was the wife of Edgar Dewdney, Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories (1881-1888). She initially lived at Government House, Battleford, then moved to Regina with her husband when the Seat of Territorial Government relocated there in 1883. She reportedly disliked living on the vast open prairie. Jane died in 1906.


SOURCES:

  • Photo: Public Archives of Canada: PA 175360

  • Dictionary of Canadian Biography: Edgar Dewdney, by E. Brian Titley.

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