Register entry 081 - Samuel Edmund St. Onge Chapleau
Visited the Bell Farm on Agust 30, 1884. Major Samuel St-Onge Chapleau (1839-1921), was born in Syracuse, New York, USA. He was educated at Terrebonne College, Quebec, and served in the United States Army from 1861 until 1871.
Shortly after the end of the Americn Civil War, Chapleau married Caroline K. Patten (1846-1918), daughter of an American Army Lieutenant-Colonel. They had one son: Samuel Jefferson Chapleau.
He worked in the Canadian federal civil service from 1873 until 1880, where he served as Secretary in the Department of Public Works. In 1883 he was appointed Sheriff of North-West Territories. In this capacity, in 1885, Chapleau stood with Riel as he was executed in Regina. Riel's body was then turned over to Chapleau for burial arrangements.
In 1887 he was appointed Clerk of the Crown in Chancery (Clerk of the Senate and Clerk of the Parliaments), a position he held until he retired in 1917.
Samuel died in 1921 and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, USA, as was his wife Caroline in 1918.
SOURCES:
Chapleau's signature attached - Library and Archives Canada, Sir John A. Macdonald Papers, Vol 456 – 24 March, 1888
photo source: Canadian Historical Portraits: http://www2.ville.montreal.qc.ca/archives/portraits/en/alpha/c/page01.shtm
photo source: Men of Canada 1891, p. 14 - http://www.archive.org/stream/canadianalbummen05cochuoft#page/14/mode/2up/search/chapleau
Dictionary of Canadian Biography - https://archive.org/stream/cyclopdiaofcan00charuoft#page/46/mode/2up
Parliamentary Treasures: https://sencanada.ca/en/about/brochure/parliamentary-treasures/history-canada-e
Civil Service Listing 1894 - Clerk Appointment / Birth date: https://www.ancestry.ca/imageviewer/collections/1275/images/RDCAN1900A_108764__0001-00007?treeid=&personid=&hintid=&queryId=b1193b603c2ff164832453c432c45ba8&usePUB=true&_phsrc=iyx352&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&pId=58353
"Louis Riel", by George F. Stanley, 1963, p. 345, 368-371
Grave site: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/57196513/samuel-e_st_onge-chapleau
RESEARCH BY:
Michelle Cabana, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; and Frank Korvemaker, Regina, Sask.