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Memorable Manitobans: Gabriel Dumont (1837-1906)
Metis leader.
Born at Winnipeg in 1837, son of Isidore Dumont and Louise Laframbroise, on 7 September 1857 he married Madeleine Wilkie (1837-1886, daughter of Jean Baptiste Wilkie and Amable Azure) at St. Joseph, Dakota Territory (now Walhalla, North Dakota). They had no children but adopted a girl and a boy. He died at St. Isidore-de-Bellevue, Saskatchewan on 19 May 1906.
See also:
Gabriel Dumont Speaks by Michael Barnholden (trans.), Vancouver: Talon Books, 1993.
Gabriel Dumont, Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Sources:
Jean Baptiste Wilkie by Lawrence Barkwell, Gabriel Dumont Institute.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Lyle Brennen.
Page revised: 27 May 2022
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