| Call #: | MSS C555/1/10.2 |
| Author: |
Morton, Arthur Silver
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| Title: | The story of the life of A. B. Bompas, Wolsely, Sask. 1923? |
| Description: | 16 pages. |
| Notes: | Bompas provides an account of his life from the time he (at the age of 10) and his family left Edinburgh in 1861 and emigrated to Manitoba, to the period of the early 1920s when he obtained and worked his own homestead, near Wolsely, Saskatchewan. He also held a number of occupations such as a railway worker on the Canadian Pacific Railway. As well, he reports on a number of historical events like the Riel Rebellions of 1869-1870 and 1885. |
| Morton Manuscript Collection, Special Collections, University of Saskatchewan Libraries. | |
| Subject: |
Pioneers - Saskatchewan
Bompas, A. B. - Autobiography Red River Rebellion, 1869-1870 Northwest Rebellion, 1885 Railway navvies - Canadian Pacific Railway - 1880 -1890 Hudson's Bay Company - Fur traders |
| Other Author: |
Bompas, A. B.
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