Grande Prairie Museum set to host a lecture on the Treaty 8 signing

The Grande Prairie Museum, in partnership with the Peace Country Historical Society, is hosting a guest lecture on the first Treaty 8 signing on Thursday, September 14.

It will take place at the museum’s Community Room,

Dr. David W. Leonard will give a lecture on the Indigenous people at the west end of Lesser Slave Lake inserting an “X” on a document that would forever affect their future in June of 1899.

Dr. Leonard’s lecture is based on the diary of Charles Mair, titled “Through the Mackenzie Basin: An Account of the Signing of Treaty No. 8 and the Scrip Commission, 1899”, which was first published in 1908.