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Virtual Saskatchewan - Batoche (1912 words) |
 | BATOCHE NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE - Bullet holes above the doorway to the church/rectory complex are the most tangible evidence of the historic Battle of Batoche that occurred here in May of 1885. |
| Batoche was settled in the early 1870s by Metis of mostly French and Indian blood. |
| By lowering a ferry cable across the South Saskatchewan, Metis forces critically damaged the smokestacks and wheel house of the Northcote, cleverly scuttling Middleton's plan to attack by water and land. |
| Virtual Saskatchewan - Gabriel Dumont (1995 words) |
| He observed Saskatchewan change from a teeming and wild land of grasses, rivers and forests - a land without boundaries - to a tamed, measured-out patchwork of farmland tended by sod-busters from somewhere else. |
| Batoche was not yet a settlement when the Dumonts arrived in the late fall of 1840. |
| He returned to Saskatchewan in 1890, disillusioned by his futile attempts to raise political sympathy among the French in Quebec, France and the eastern U.S. Dumont spent his last years hunting, fishing and mostly keeping to himself, although he enjoyed telling the children of his nephews and nieces about the old days and ways. |
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