Register entry 077 - Thomas Wesley Jackson
Visited the Bell Farm in August 1884 - Thomas Wesley Jackson (1859 - 1932) was born in Ontario and came west around 1880, where he filed for homesteads in both the York Colony (now Yorkton) and Fort Qu’Appelle areas. In 1884 he was secretary-treasurer of the Wood Mountain and Qu'Appelle Railway Company, but that company never undertook any actual railway construction. From 1883 to 1886 Jackson served as an elected member of the North-West Territorial Council, and was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 1885. He was particularly critical of the federal government's handling of the Indian and Metis issues that led to the North-West Rebellion of 1885, and returned to Ontario in 1886. Jackson died in Vancouver in 1932.
SOURCES:
Signature: LAC (Library and Archives Canada) http://data2.archives.ca/e/e319/e007951935-v8.jpg;pvaaf5715e7152722f
http://www.archive.org/stream/cihm_52930#page/n3/mode/2up
http://www.yorktonthisweek.com/article/20120725/YORKTON0101/120729912/-1/yorkton/yorkton-8217-s-corporate-history
http://www.saskarchives.com/sites/default/files/documents/NWT-Council.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Wesley_Jackson
RESEARCH BY:
Michelle Cabana, Saskatoon; Frank Korvemaker, Regina; and Terri Lefebvre Prince, Yorkton, Sask.